I Am Not Your Baby Mother: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

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Then the bucket would pass around, and those who only had a few pennies to spare would place their hands right to the bottom of the bucket, so that you wouldn’t know they weren’t dropping fat pound coins, which always made a heavier, thudding noise. From family and money to Black hair and fashion, as well as colourism and relationships between people of different races, it's a fascinating read that will launch some much-needed conversations.

I think this is going to go really well - it speaks to issues that teens are going through right now, and it's so well written to boot. It’s just a great written book because I really did feel for Cynthia when she discovers it’s Isaac’s brother is who killed Mike. Candice Brathwaite has such an incredible way with words, this jump from non-fiction to fiction is a smooth transition.

I would be interested in learning about other fiction books which capture the challenges young Black people in London face in relation to knife and gun crime. It is a compilation of essays about all the things Candice wishes someone had talked to her about when she was a young black girl growing up in London. Featuring Cynthia and Isaac as the book delves into both of their lives, and watching their characters and relationship develop was sad but lovely. I could really go on about how Instagram are doing a disservice to small bloggers and creatives but I won’t. I want black women to know that their version of motherhood is as righteous and as sacred as any other and deserves to be as protected as any other woman’s.

Being seen, feeling represented and feeling a sense of belonging are basic human needs and rights and yet there is STILL an overwhelming number of very similar offerings to expectant/new mothers. well maybe we were supposed to know and I just didn’t know what it was from the subtle description of it. The story explores the expectations of being a black teenager in Britain and touches on the way back and white are treated differently. A self-confessed beauty and fashion obsessive Candice has a style segment on Lorraine on ITV where she has become known for gently encouraging people to be bolder about embracing colour in their wardrobes.uk/landing-page/quercus/quercus-company-information/">The data controller is Quercus Editions Ltd. At her new school, Cynthia immediately finds herself caught between two brothers - head boy Thomas, who is white, and his adopted Black brother, Isaac. Candice offers her experience, opinions and hopes in one of the most honest and beautifully worded books I have ever had the pleasure of reading. Author, journalist and TV presenter, Candice Brathwaite started utilizing the internet in 2015 to tell her own motherhood story. You learn from earlier chapters on hair, colourism and romantic love that Candice has had a hard and troubling time on her journey to self-love.

There were only a few girls who had copies in the secondary school I was attending, so there was a waiting list to read it.

Brathwaite is a natural at tapping into a narrative voice that is both authentic and accessible to readers of all ages, while exploring themes of class, race, and trauma. Yet in desperate times, I have found myself purchasing ‘smudge kits’ from white women running online businesses for ‘spiritual awakening’, many of whom I doubt know the roots of the practice from which they profit. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. London is everything to Cynthia, so when her parents move her to a place where there is only one bus an hour and the faint smell of horse manure continuously permeates the air, it’s a culture shock, to say the least. A sharp and authentic love story about 16-year-old Cynthia, who finds herself caught between two brothers: one who is Black and the other who is white.

Brathwaite takes us through her own experiences as an unmarried black woman expecting her first baby and the prejudices she experiences both from within her own culture and the expectations upon her, and without, from the medical profession and through the lens of white privilege and racism. It was so evident that this book was written by someone much, much older with not much sense of modern youthfulness and their interaction. Cynthia is emotionally vulnerable and open in a way that makes it impossible for you to not fall in love with her. I’m not very good on Twitter at the moment and do need to look out for these interesting conversations going on.For a course on Canadian Literature I managed to get Richard Wagamese’s novel Indian Horse, a semi-autobiographical account of life in a Catholic residential school for indigenous peoples.