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Windrush Child

By: Benjamin Zephaniah
Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe
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In this heart-stopping adventure, Benjamin Zephaniah shows us what it was like to be a child of the Windrush generation.

Leonard is shocked when he arrives with his mother in the port of Southampton. His father is a stranger to him, it's cold and even the Jamaican food doesn't taste the same as it did back home in Maroon Town. But his parents have brought him here to try to make a better life, so Leonard does his best not to complain, to make new friends, to do well at school - even when people hurt him with their words and with their fists.

How can a boy so far from home learn to enjoy his new life when so many things count against him?

©2020 Benjamin Zephaniah (P)2023 Little Acorns Caribbean Creators Fiction Geography & Cultures Historical Fiction Literature & Fiction Multicultural Stories Heartfelt

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I enjoyed the book and its characters. But I cried so much at its finale. Such injustice and deliberate hostility is mortifying.

It broke my heart!

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The story is read beautifully, easy to listen to and an interesting story. Finished in a weekend

Good performance

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it was really good to confirm from.anotjer source all the stories that I've heard. the characterisation of Leonard was excellent and the end. Wow! Loved it. This is the story that many British children from the Caribbean have had to endure. Thank you Benjamin Zephaniah for highlighting this in such a profound way.

This is my dad's history

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IT WAS SO SAD, that is the safest ending I've ever seen/heard like I can't even 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

it was such a good book but...

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Windrush Child is a beautifully written, very important historical narrative. I’m very glad to have listened to it over the last week and am sure that I’ll revisit it before long.

A wonderful book.

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