When Jackie Kay was a little girl, there came a moment when she realized her skin was a different colour from that of her mum and dad. Growing up in Glasgow, her childhood was one filled with love, and yet later, pregnant with her own son, she decided she needed to find her birth parents. So Kay set out on a remarkable journey from Scotland to Nigeria, a journey that forced her to confront what it takes to find yourself, and what it is that makes us who we are.

Jackie Kay is one of Scotland’s most celebrated voices, and Red Dust Road, her beloved classic memoir, is a story about family, inheritance and identity. In the end, Kay’s journey comes full circle, and proves that we are shaped by songs as much as by cells, and that what triumphs, ultimately, is love.

‘Like the best memoirs, this one is written with novelistic and poetic flair. Pitch-perfect, page-turning’ Bernardine Evaristo, Independent