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Sugar and Slate

By: Charlotte Williams, Bernadine Evaristo
Narrated by: Bernardine Evaristo, Zadeiah Campbell-Davies
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A powerful, intimate memoir from writer and academic Charlotte Williams exploring the intertwined history of Wales, Africa and the Caribbean

As the daughter of a white Welsh-speaking mother and black father from Guyana, Charlotte Williams's childhood world was one of mixed messages dominated by the feeling that 'somehow to be half-Welsh and half Afro-Caribbean was to be half of something but never quite anything whole at all.'

Sugar and Slate tells the fascinating story of her journey of self-discovery, from the small north Wales town of her birth to Africa, the Caribbean and back to Wales. This is both a personal memoir and a story that speaks to the wider experience of mixed-race Britons. It is a story of Welshness and a story of Wales and above all a story for those of us who look over our shoulder across the sea to some other place.

A title in the Black Britain: Writing Back series - selected by Booker Prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo, this series rediscovers and celebrates pioneering books depicting black Britain that remap the nation.
©2023 Charlotte Williams (P)2023 Penguin Audio
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'An engaging and perceptive voice describing an engrossing and particular personal story.' (Gary Younge)

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Very enlightening on the topic of racial identity in Wales.

Lovely story telling. Thought provoking as the parent of a mixed race child. As a welsh speaker tho, the poor pronunciation of the welsh words really grated.

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