Sugar and Slate
Black Britain: Writing Back, Book 12
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Narrated by:
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Bernardine Evaristo
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Zadeiah Campbell-Davies
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Written by:
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Charlotte Williams
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Bernadine Evaristo
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A powerful, intimate memoir from writer and academic Charlotte Williams exploring the intertwined history of Wales, Africa and the Caribbean
As the daughter of a white Welsh-speaking mother and black father from Guyana, Charlotte Williams's childhood world was one of mixed messages dominated by the feeling that 'somehow to be half-Welsh and half Afro-Caribbean was to be half of something but never quite anything whole at all.'
Sugar and Slate tells the fascinating story of her journey of self-discovery, from the small north Wales town of her birth to Africa, the Caribbean and back to Wales. This is both a personal memoir and a story that speaks to the wider experience of mixed-race Britons. It is a story of Welshness and a story of Wales and above all a story for those of us who look over our shoulder across the sea to some other place.
A title in the Black Britain: Writing Back series - selected by Booker Prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo, this series rediscovers and celebrates pioneering books depicting black Britain that remap the nation.
©2023 Charlotte Williams (P)2023 Penguin AudioCritic Reviews
'An engaging and perceptive voice describing an engrossing and particular personal story.' (Gary Younge)