About this product
Year2025
ISBN/ISSN9781800753662
LanguageEnglish
PublisherSwift Press
Cover TypeSoft Cover
AuthorRob Henderson
Product description
Dimensions: 42.2cm x 20.4cm x 2.3cm - 'Masterpiece' Evening Standard
'Fascinating' The Economist Best Titles of 2024
In this vivid coming-of-age memoir, Rob Henderson recounts growing up in foster care, enlisting in the US Air Force, attending elite universities – and what he learnt from seeing life from both sides of the tracks.
In this heartbreaking and thought-provoking memoir, Rob Henderson vividly recounts growing up in foster care, enlisting in the US Air Force, attending Yale and Cambridge, and pioneering the concept of ‘luxury beliefs’ – ideas and opinions that confer status on the more educated while inflicting costs on the less fortunate.
‘Eye-opening and heart-breaking’
‘Powerful and thought-provoking’