A Woman's Life - A Novel by Jackie Kay

Bessie smith's biography of a goose legend took 20 years to be published in the U.S. It was republished after Alexis hat works at fabre, who published it in the uk, happened to find a copy of the old book in a second hand book shop. She got in touch with me and said, you know, why hasn't this book got more attention? I didn't even know you'd written it. And so they published it here with fabr and i got a huge amount of attention 20 odd years later. Maybe that mixture of memoire biography was too much for people. Ad maybe the book itself in the form of it and wasit was