Finding My Voice

Hussain, Nadiya

ISBN 10: 1472259963 / ISBN 13: 9781472259967

Published by Headline Publishing, London, 2019

About this Item

The much loved Bake Off winner, writer and presenter, tells her own story with warmth and honesty. She has signed the title page - Nadya. Turqoise boards with white print. Hint of rubbing to spine ends else Fine. 16 x 24cms with 339pp. We regret we are no longer able to ship to Denmark or Germany. All profits to Amnesty International.

Seller Inventory # 013593

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Finding My Voice
• Publisher: Headline Publishing, London
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1472259963
• ISBN 13: 9781472259967
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author

About this title

Synopsis

'I am their daughter. They are me. I am my Baba's stubborn back bone and his great brows. I am my mum's resilience and wide birthing hips. I am their profanity, their nerves, I am their traditions, their hang ups, their loss, their tears. I am their human, their child, their daughter.'

Born to parents who had emigrated to Britain from Bangladesh, Nadiya Hussain's first roles were those of daughter and sister. Considering her later roles as a devout Muslim entering an arranged marriage and becoming a wife and mother herself, Nadiya questions the barriers that many women, no matter who they are or where they live, have to cross in order to be accepted or heard. Importantly, she shows us how, at the core of it all, we are essentially tackling the same issues throughout our lives despite our cultural, social and religious differences.

Each chapter deals with a different role, and Nadiya writes with warmth, humour, honesty and deep emotion about what each one means to her and how she embodies all the different expectations of these roles in her life. Writing about growing up in a large family, who were culturally torn between two countries, to her thoughts on becoming a celebrity, after winning The Great British Bake Off, the later chapters cover her more recent roles of 'baker', 'Twitter handle' and 'TV presenter'.