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The Sunday Times  'Freshly fascinating. [Lawton] is a particularly astute observer of the psychological dislocation caused by growing up mixed race... and she writes beautifully about questions of identity and belonging, so central to each of us in finding our particular place in the world.' New York Times Book Review  'A poignant and eye opening memoir...a nuanced and crucial dissection of race as a construct.' Yomi Adegoke, co-author of Slay in Your Lane  'A beautifully written account of an extraordinary story, Raceless is as eye-opening as it is profound.' Otegha Uwagba  A Guardian, Sunday Times, Evening Standard and Cosmopolitan book of the year for 2021  'Ideas from our parents form the backbone to our identities, the bedrock to personal truths that we recite and remember like prayers from Church or poems from school. But they condition us in more powerful ways than lessons from any book or religion ever could. Now the tale had been destroyed. So what did that mean about who I thought I was?'  In Georgina Lawton's childhood home, her Blackness was never acknowledged; the obvious fact of her brown skin, ignored by her white parents. Over time, secrets and a complex family story became accepted as truth and Georgina found herself complicit in the erasure of her racial identity.   It was only when her beloved father died  that the truth began to emerge. Fleeing the shattered pieces of her family life and the comfortable, suburban home she grew up in, at age 22 Georgina went in search of answers - embarking on a journey that took her around the world, to the DNA testing industry, and to countless others, whose identities have been questioned, denied or erased.  What do you do when your heritage or parentage has been obscured in a complex web of deceit?  How can you discuss race with your family, when you each see the world differently?   When a personal identity has been wrongly constructed, how do you start again? Raceless is both the compelling personal account of a young woman seeking her own story amid devastating family secrets, and a fascinating, challenging and essential examination of modern racial identity.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49510971080977,"sku":"GOR011191535","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49894173049105,"sku":"GOR013808900","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49950855037201,"sku":"GOR011915719","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49983303319825,"sku":"GOR012137264","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0751579386.jpg?v=1751138097"},{"product_id":"raceless-book-georgina-lawton-9780751579376","title":"Raceless","description":"A GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES, EVENING STANDARD AND COSMOPOLITAN BOOK OF THE YEAR  'A jaw-dropping story, told deftly . . . a gripping, thought-provoking book' Sunday Times  'A really engaging memoir about identity, race, family, secrets, lies and ultimately betrayal, by a very gifted storyteller' Guardian  Georgina Lawton was born to two white parents. Despite her brown skin, her racial identity was never spoken of in her childhood home.     The truth only began to emerge when her beloved father died. Fleeing the shattered pieces of her family life, Georgina went in search of answers - a search that took her around the world, to the DNA testing industry and to talk to others whose identities had been questioned or erased.  How do you come to terms with a family history tangled in deceit? And how do you define yourself after a childhood that denied a crucial part of your identity?  A beautifully-written true account of a young woman seeking her own story amid devastating family secrets. For readers of moving, powerful books about family and identity such as My Name is Why by Lemn Sissay and Educated by Tara Westover.  -----------  'Freshly fascinating . . . She writes beautifully about questions of identity and belonging, so central to each of us in finding our particular place in the world' New York Times Book Review  'Extraordinary' Daily Mirror  'A poignant and eye-opening memoir' Yomi Adegoke, co-author of Slay in Your Lane  'A beautiful heart-expanding memoir, truly unforgettable' Emma Gannon, author of Sabotage  'At turns revelatory and profound, this memoir sings' Publishers Weekly  'A beautifully written account of an extraordinary story, as eye-opening as it is profound' Otegha Uwagba, author of Little Black Book  'Heart-rending and poignant . . . painfully illuminating but a triumphant journey' Florence Olajide, author of Coconut","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49544583053585,"sku":"GOR012225368","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49739191255313,"sku":"NGR9780751579376","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53133469090065,"sku":"GOR012514017","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0751579378.jpg?v=1751439539"},{"product_id":"raceless-book-georgina-lawton-9780063009486","title":"Raceless","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Bustle Most Anticipated Debut of the Year\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Freshly\u003cbr\u003e fascinating. [Lawton] is a particularly astute observer of the psychological\u003cbr\u003e dislocation caused by growing up mixed race... and she writes beautifully about questions of\u003cbr\u003e identity and belonging, so central to each of us in finding our particular\u003cbr\u003e place in the world.\" -New\u003cbr\u003e York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Guardian's\u003cbr\u003e Georgina Lawton, a moving examination of how racial identity is constructed--through\u003cbr\u003e the author's own journey grappling with secrets and stereotypes, having been\u003cbr\u003e raised by white parents with no explanation as to why she looked black.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRaised in sleepy English suburbia, Georgina Lawton was no stranger to\u003cbr\u003e homogeneity. Her parents were white; her friends were white; there was no\u003cbr\u003e reason for her to think she was any different. 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