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“Where are you from?” is a question Precious Williams finds hard to answer. In 1971 her mother placed an advert in Nursery World: “Private foster parents required for a three-month-old baby.”
Precious writes: “My mother arrives, a haughty Nigerian woman in a convertible with a Moses basket on the seat beside her, setting the net curtains in this all-white council estate twitching… she returns to London with an empty basket beside her.”
Precious is the story of growing up black in a white community, of struggling to find an identity that fits. Painfully honest, swerving from farce to tragedy, Precious has a spirit that refuses to be crushed.
Precious Williams has been a contributing editor at Cosmopolitan, Elle and The Mail on Sunday. Her personal essays and celebrity interviews have also appeared in the Telegraph, The Times and the Guardian.
