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Odette Debono

White Sheep (Hardback)

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This book will be released in March 2026.

Pre-orders are charged at time of order and the book will be posted to you as soon as it becomes available.

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Born into the narrow dockland streets of late-sixties South Wales, Odette longs for escape. She wishes things were different. But what can a child do but dream and hold on? Raised in a mixed heritage family by her single mother, Annette, and her Woodbine-smoking Grandma, she and her two younger sisters must navigate an angry world of booze, prostitution and uncertainty.

This candid and compelling memoir brings the reader up close and personal to the drama and emotional turmoil that pervaded a docklands childhood – but also shines a light on the often funny and mundane moments that are always there – no matter what.

 

Odette Debono was born and still lives in Newport, South Wales. Having left school with nothing to show for it, she later went on to study at the University of South Wales, winning the Tony Curtis Prize for Poetry, before completing an MA in Creative Writing at Cardiff University. White Sheep is her first book.