As she joins the family business, the author tells how her career in healthcare and her own early life informed her debut novel, The Day I Fell Off My Island
Yvonne Bailey-Smith
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It will be a family affair in Queen s Park on Thursday as Zadie Smith s mum and brother see their first books published.
Yvonne Bailey-Smith s novel The Day I Fell Off My Island and her son Ben Bailey-Smith s children s book Something I Said are both being published on June 10.
Ben Bailey Smith, also known as Doc Brown, has published his first novel Like I Said.
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In April, Yvonne s award-winning daughter Zadie Smith published her first children s book Weirdo, with husband Nick Laird.
Meanwhile son Luc Skyz is busy writing a screenplay.