I’ve been having difficulty focusing on print books this last couple of weeks, but I did really enjoy Katy Massey’s memoir Are We Home Yet? This is another from Jacaranda’s Twenty in 2020 and like The Space Between Black and White, details the author’s experience growing up mixed-race in a white family in the UK.

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You know I love anything focusing on motherhood, so I loved reading Massey’s experiences with her mother growing up, which were complex to say the least! As a young girl, she discovers her mother has been working as a sex worker, and through her teenage years her mother opens a successful brothel in Leeds, providing a safe and clean space for sex workers in the area. As they both get older, their family shifts and changes and it was interesting to see how their dynamics shifted as a consequence. Massey also tackles the notion of home and identity.

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While I am a huge fan of fiction which flits back and forth between past and present, I actually didn’t *love* it here, as it sometimes felt too choppy and it would take me a minute to get situated again. But a minor niggle, and I’d still recommend this one!