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I could have been born and raised in Africa. But my spirit was in too much of a rush to be reincarnated. At six weeks I was chucked out into the new year of 1965, which wasn't prepared to welcome an African baby, abandoned on a harsh English winter's day. So begins Pauline's spirited and moving story of her childhood and teenage years in and out of foster homes and back and forth to Dr. Barnardo's Village in Essex. Her Barnardo's family was ruled by an unlikely trio, Aunty Claire, a fervent Christian; her laconic husband, the German Jewish Uncle Boris; and Aunty Morag, the cook. And, of course, other kids orphaned or abandoned like Pauline. Woven into this account are Pauline's angel and spirit companions Sparky, Annabel and Snake who by turns help and hinder her to survive in the real world. The Barnardo's good times are shattered by the sudden visits of her mother, whom she calls Wunmi and with whom she goes to live in a London high-rise. Wunmi's method of refashioning Pauline into a dutiful African child is literally to knock the English out of her. She tries other ways to survive, sniffing glue and shoplifting, until the harsh realities of detention centres and juvenile courts make Pauline think again.
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Award winning author Dr. Valerie Mason-John, is the author of seven books including Broken Voices: Untouchable Women Speak Out,and Detox Your Heart, working with anger, fear and hatred. She co-edited the first national anthology of African Canadian poetry, The Great Black North, published 2013. In January 2014 she will launch her new book Eight Step Recovery - Using the Buddha s Teachings to Overcome Addiction. She works as a motivational speaker, as well as a Bully Doctor for several School Boards in Canada. She lives in British Columbia.
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A riveting, truthful, touching read that tells us new things about the secret lives of children. --Maggie Gee, award winning novelist and Officer of the Order of the British Empire For Services to Literature
Borrowed Body is a beautiful and textured story in which the world of children appear in multicolour, and in black and white. Mason-John has gifted us with a memorable and poignant story. --Afua Cooper, Ph.D., Author of The Hanging of Angelique: The Untold Story of Slavery in Canada and the Burning of Old Montrea
Borrowed Body is a beautiful and textured story in which the world of children appear in multicolour, and in black and white. Mason-John has gifted us with a memorable and poignant story. --Afua Cooper, Ph.D., Author of The Hanging of Angelique: The Untold Story of Slavery in Canada and the Burning of Old Montrea
Borrowed Body is a beautiful and textured story in which the world of children appear in multicolour, and in black and white. Mason-John has gifted us with a memorable and poignant story. --Afua Cooper, Ph.D., Author of The Hanging of Angelique: The Untold Story of Slavery in Canada and the Burning of Old Montrea
Borrowed Body is a beautiful and textured story in which the world of children appear in multicolour, and in black and white. Mason-John has gifted us with a memorable and poignant story. --Afua Cooper, Ph.D., Author of The Hanging of Angelique: The Untold Story of Slavery in Canada and the Burning of Old Montrea
Borrowed Body is a beautiful and textured story in which the world of children appear in multicolour, and in black and white. Mason-John has gifted us with a memorable and poignant story. --Afua Cooper, Ph.D., Author of The Hanging of Angelique: The Untold Story of Slavery in Canada and the Burning of Old Montrea
Borrowed Body is a beautiful and textured story in which the world of children appear in multicolour, and in black and white. Mason-John has gifted us with a memorable and poignant story. --Afua Cooper, Ph.D., Author of The Hanging of Angelique: The Untold Story of Slavery in Canada and the Burning of Old Montrea
Borrowed Body is a beautiful and textured story in which the world of children appear in multicolour, and in black and white. Mason-John has gifted us with a memorable and poignant story. --Afua Cooper, Ph.D., Author of The Hanging of Angelique: The Untold Story of Slavery in Canada and the Burning of Old Montrea
Borrowed Body is a beautiful and textured story in which the world of children appear in multicolour, and in black and white. Mason-John has gifted us with a memorable and poignant story. --Afua Cooper, Ph.D., Author of The Hanging of Angelique: The Untold Story of Slavery in Canada and the Burning of Old Montrea
Borrowed Body is a beautiful and textured story in which the world of children appear in multicolour, and in black and white. Mason-John has gifted us with a memorable and poignant story. --Afua Cooper, Ph.D., Author of The Hanging of Angelique: The Untold Story of Slavery in Canada and the Burning of Old Montrea
Borrowed Body is a beautiful and textured story in which the world of children appear in multicolour, and in black and white. Mason-John has gifted us with a memorable and poignant story. --Afua Cooper, Ph.D., Author of The Hanging of Angelique: The Untold Story of Slavery in Canada and the Burning of Old Montrea
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