A revealing, honest and often comic coming-of-age story about growing up in 1970s Britain on the boundaries of race

”Full of charm”
GUARDIAN
”An account of what being British means”
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”Captures a country in transition … You can”t fail to be moved”
THE TIMES

Kamal Ahmed”s childhood was very ”British” in every way – except for the fact that he was brown. Half English, half Sudanese, he was raised at a time when being mixed-race meant being told to go home, even when you were born just down the road.
This is his account of an upbringing of cricket and bucket-and-spade holidays, Angel Delight and the BBC – British to the core, yet always feeling foreign in the only home he had ever known.
”Ahmed grew up as a mixed-race kid in west London in the seventies, and his book charts the progress (sometimes slow and now without a few setbacks along the way) that our country has made on race issues since then. Brilliant” Rohan Silva,
Evening Standard