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(Unsplash) Marie Claire is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Eva Verde always felt like an outsider in her white family. Now the author reveals how she reconnected with her lost roots for the sake of her young daughters All my life I’ve carried an in-built sixth sense attunement to being the oddity. It’s a feeling that grows whenever I find myself as the sole brown face; a subliminal recognition of not belonging. I’m as ordinary and commonplace as you get, a stay-at-home mum of three London-born Essex girl – yet an outsider, even though I’m not. I’ve no connection to my black ethnicity, have learnt to be me without any hereditary foundations. ....
From fictional debuts to untold histories, Martin Chilton rounds up the forthcoming titles to keep you reading throughout the year. Julian Barnes wrote: Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory. Although he was joking about Gustave Flaubert s carnal desires, Barnes could easily have been describing the sweet sense of excitement felt by book lovers contemplating new pages on the horizon. The new year will bring novels from Kazuo Ishiguro, Sebastian Faulks, Lisa Taddeo, Stephen King and Jonathan Franzen; memoirs from Brian Cox and David Sedaris; and non-fiction releases from George Saunders, Dr Rachel Clarke and Matt Haig. There is even going to be a children s book about positive thinking from footballer and food-provision campaigner Marcus Rashford. ....