Learning to Think. - A memoir about hardship, education, hellfire, family, finding a way to break free

''Tracy King''s memoir is heartbreaking and hopeful...An incredible true story of survival and forgiveness.'' TIM MINCHIN

''Raw and unflinching.'' CAROLINE CRIADO PEREZ

''A brilliant writer.'' ADAM KAY

''What would you do if you began to suspect the events of your childhood didn''t happen as you remembered them? In this evocative memoir, Tracy King confronts the stories we all tell ourselves in order to live.'' HELEN LEWIS

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When you have nothing, you cling to whatever gives you hope.

Put yourself in Tracy King''s shoes. Growing up in an ordinary council estate outside Birmingham; a house filled with creativity, curiosity and love, but marked by her father''s alcoholism and her mother''s agoraphobia.

By the time she turns twelve her father has been killed, her sister taken into care and her mother