Borrowed Body

I could have been born and raised in Africa. But my spirit was in too much of a rush to be reincarnated. At six weeks I was chucked out into the new year of 1965, which wasn’t prepared to welcome an African baby, abandoned on a harsh English winter’s day. So begins Pauline’s spirited and moving story of her childhood and teenage years in and out of foster homes and back and forth to Dr. Barnardo’s Village in Essex.

“A powerful debut about growing up in 1970s London Black, female, in orphanages, on the streets and in children’s prison.”