Turning the Page: An Anthology of Writings from the Southall Black Sisters Survivors Group

by Rahila Gupta (Editor), Nimo Abdilahi, Moniza Alvi

This is a moving, heartbreaking and uplifting collection of stories and poems by women from all around the world who have two things in common - the experience of violence, loss, grief, material insecurity and the desire to come out at the other end, intact, if a little ragged at the edges; and trying to make England their home with varying degrees of success.

Responding to these stories with new writings of their own are magnificent writers like Jackie Kay, Moniza Alvi, Meena Kandasamy and Miss Yankey. This is a literary conversation like no other between two groups of black and minority women, divided by privilege but possibly united by the experience of violence.

151 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2016

About the author

Writer, journalist, activist - not necessarily in that order. On the management committee of Southall Black Sisters and the Nihal Armstorng Trust