The author’s account of being abandoned by her mother as a young
child and her life in homes and institutions will captivate any
reader. The mystery of her search for her mother and constant
rejections will leave the reader wondering what demons drove her to
be so elusive. “Call Me Auntie” was the best her mother could
offer but this was just the start of a bizarre sequence of events.
After discovering she had a brother and looking for her long lost
family in Barbados the author finally came to understand she “may
be a princess after all”. Call Me Auntie is a story of survival,
resilience and changing attitudes to racism and ethnicity as the
author forged a successful career beginning as a Woolworth’s shop
girl before joining the police, then moving into social work.
Extract: ‘Our new house-parents were Harold and Dora … He was a
big guy who always looked angry. She was a little mousy figure but
with a steel will underneath … Overnight, the household regime
changed. As controlled as our lives might have been in the
[previous houseparents’] time, the changes were shocking. Chores
had to be performed to much higher standards, and there were new
ones … There were new rules, routines, and responsibilities. But
this was not all. With the new chores and new rules, our fear set
in.'
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