'A lyrical, painful and yet hope-filled memoir . . . Shattering, light-searching'
Observer

Searing . . . Unputdownable . . . My Name Is Why is authentic and beautiful, a potential game-changer in public attitudes to children raised in care. It’s about bureaucratic cruelty and what happens when love is absent. Don’t miss it - The Times 3 An extraordinary story - Sunday Times 4 The most amazing thing about this book is that it’s not made up. This actually happened. It is an incredible story - BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH 5 I have never read a memoir like it. A blistering account of a young life in the hands of neglectful authorities. It’s a quest for understanding, for home, for answers. Grips like a thriller. Astounding - MATT HAIG 6 The great triumph of this work comes from its author’s determination to rail against what he rightly diagnoses as this institutionally endorsed disremembering of black and marginalised experience. It is a searing and unforgettable re-creation of the most brutal of beginnings - Michael Donkor, Guardian 7 Utterly devastating and beautiful . . . Breathtakingly written - DOLLY ALDERTON 8 This is a deeply moving memoir that speaks with incredible poeticism. A staggering exposé of colonial theft and abandonment, this book is grippingly heartbreaking - DAVID LAMMY 9 A fascinating memoir . . . So powerful - ELIF SHAFAK 10 The engaging transfiguring truth of My Name Is Why is like a baptism of truth – leaving you washed clean of lies and reborn in love. Profound in its kindness, intelligence and unselfish heart, this book is important and unputdownable - JESSICA HYNES