TY - BOOK AU - Sissay,Lemn TI - Something dark T2 - Oberon modern plays SN - 9781786822291 (pbk.) : U1 - 822.9'2 23 PY - 2017/// CY - London PB - Oberon Books KW - Sissay, Lemn, KW - Autobiographical drama, English KW - Literature KW - eflch KW - ukslc N2 - 'Something Dark' tells the true story of Lemn Sissay who, as a baby, was given up by his Ethiopian mother in the 1960s. Renamed Norman White - and nicknamed Chalky White throughout his turbulent childhood in care - Lemn only found out his real identity at the age of 18. No longer in the care of the social services, Lemn became a celebrated performance poet in Manchester before leaving the UK to search for his mother and the truth about his father ER -