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'A phenomenal memoir. I am in awe' AMY LIPTROT 'Beautiful, deep, transfixing . . . it will burn a home in your heart' LEMN SISSAY 'Essential reading, life-changing' SAMANTHA MORTON 'An astonishing piece of work' NIALL GRIFFITHS The government told a story about me before I was born. Jenni Fagan was property of the state before birth. She drew her first breath in care and by the age of seven, she had lived in fourteen different homes and had her name changed multiple times. Twenty years after her first attempt to write this powerful memoir, Jenni is finally ready to share her account. Ootlin is a journey through the broken UK care system - it is one of displacement and exclusion, but also of the power of storytelling. It is about the very human act of making meaning from adversity.

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Author:   Dr Jenni Fagan
Publisher:   Cornerstone
Imprint:   Hutchinson Heinemann
Dimensions:   Width: 14.50cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 22.40cm
Weight:   0.441kg
ISBN:  

9781529153071

ISBN 10:   1529153077
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   22 August 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Beautiful, deep, dangerous, transfixing . . . it will burn a home in your heart, it has in mine. Read every word of every page. Turn them carefully. Jenni Fagan is made of fire and spirit. From start to finish I could not put it down. Close the door. Sit down now. Read Ootlin. Read -- Lemn Sissay Novelist and poet Fagan writes powerfully about her childhood as a ward of the state, a rootless existence that fostered a fascination with storytelling * Guardian * Fagan's prose is poetic, high-octane, built on punchy sentences * Sunday Times on LUCKENBOOTH * Fagan switches effortlessly between dreamy prose and a more dynamic style * Financial Times on LUCKENBOOTH * Dazzlingly ambitious -- Douglas Stuart on LUCKENBOOTH

Beautiful, deep, dangerous, transfixing . . . it will burn a home in your heart, it has in mine. Read every word of every page. Turn them carefully. Jenni Fagan is made of fire and spirit. From start to finish I could not put it down. Close the door. Sit down now. Read Ootlin. Read -- Lemn Sissay Fagan's prose is poetic, high-octane, built on punchy sentences * Sunday Times on LUCKENBOOTH * Fagan switches effortlessly between dreamy prose and a more dynamic style * Financial Times on LUCKENBOOTH * Dazzlingly ambitious -- Douglas Stuart on LUCKENBOOTH One of the most stunning literary experiences I've had in years -- Irvine Welsh on LUCKENBOOTH

Author Information

Jenni Fagan was born in Scotland. Jenni was selected as one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists after the publication of her debut novel, The Panopticon, which was shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and the James Tait Black Prize. The Sunlight Pilgrims, her second novel, was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Encore Award and the Saltire Fiction Book of the Year Award and saw her win Scottish Author of the Year at the Herald Culture Awards. Luckenbooth was shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2021. Jenni Fagan is a Doctor of Philosophy, she lives in Edinburgh with her son.

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