Learning to Think.: A broken system kept her trapped, education helped her break free

by Tracy King

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'An astonishing tale, well structured and punchily told..’- Sunday Times

'Impossible not to read in one sitting.' - Stylist, Best books for 2024

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A memoir you read with the same breathlessness as you read the most gripping of novels' - i news

'What would you do if you began to suspect the events of your childhood didn't happen as you remembered them? In this evocative memoir, Tracy King confronts the stories we all tell ourselves in order to live.' HELEN LEWIS


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When you have nothing, you cling to whatever gives you hope.


Put yourself in Tracy King's shoes. Growing up in an ordinary council estate outside Birmingham; a house filled with creativity, curiosity and love, but marked by her father's alcoholism and her mother's agoraphobia.

By the time she turns twelve her father has been killed, her sister taken into care and her mother ensnared by the promises of born-again Christianity.

This isn't the stuff of cult documentaries; this is the story of an ordinary family trapped in a broken system. It's a story that could happen to anyone without the tools to transform their circumstances. And it's the story of how Tracy found her way out.

A shocking, inspiring and ultimately hopeful memoir that holds up a mirror to the everyday realities of living in poverty, it is also a testament to the power of books and to learning to question our world.

  • ISBN10 1473583764
  • ISBN13 9781473583764
  • Publish Date 7 March 2024
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Transworld Publishers Ltd
  • Imprint Transworld Digital
  • Format eBook (EPUB)
  • Language English