Something dark / Lemn Sissay.
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TextSeries: Oberon modern playsPublisher: London : Oberon Books, 2017Description: vi, 45 pages ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781786822291 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Sissay, Lemn, 1968- -- Drama | Autobiographical drama, English | Literature | LiteratureDDC classification: 822.9'2 Summary: '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.
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'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.
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