RED DUST ROAD (PICADOR COLLECTION)

From the moment when, as a little girl, she realizes that her skin is a different colour from that of her beloved mum and dad, to the tracing and finding of her birth parents, her Highland mother and Nigerian father, Jackie Kay’s journey in Red Dust Road is one of unexpected twists, turns and deep emotions. Taking the reader from Glasgow to Lagos and beyond, Kay discovers that inheritance is about much more than genes: that we are shaped by songs as much as by cells.