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Poor: The No. 1 bestseller – ‘Moving, uplifting, brave heroic’ BBC Woman’s Hour

Poor: The No. 1 bestseller – ‘Moving, uplifting, brave heroic’ BBC Woman’s Hour

Like young girls everywhere Katriona O’Sullivan grew up bright, enthusiastic, curious. But she was also surrounded by abject poverty and chaos, and after she became pregnant and homeless at 15, what followed was five years of barely surviving. Yet today Katriona is an award-winning academic whose work explores barriers to education for girls like her.

Katriona O'Sullivan

  • Penguin Books Ltd
  • 9780241996768
  • 304 pages
  • Paperback
  • United Kingdom
  • Memoirs