Jackie Kay
Goodreads Author
Born
Glasgow, Scotland, The United Kingdom
Genre
Member Since
July 2010
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/jackiekay
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Trumpet
35 editions
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1998
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Red Dust Road: An Autobiographical Journey
24 editions
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2010
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The Adoption Papers
4 editions
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1991
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Bessie Smith: A Poet's Biography of a Blues Legend
9 editions
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1997
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Wish I Was Here
6 editions
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2006
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Why Don't You Stop Talking: Stories
8 editions
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2002
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Reality, Reality
7 editions
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2011
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The Lamplighter
4 editions
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2008
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Fiere
7 editions
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2010
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Darling: New & Selected Poems
4 editions
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2007
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“When the love of your life dies, the problem is not that some part of you dies too, which it does, but that some part of you is still alive.”
― Trumpet
― Trumpet
“Loss isn't an absence after all. It is a presence. A strong presence right next to me. I look at it. It doesn't look like anything, that's what is so strange. It just fits in.”
― Trumpet
― Trumpet
“My father had a lifelong terror, phobia whatever, about hospitals. Makes a lot of sense in hindsight. He was so scared of doctors, he passed that on to me. That's what parents exist for: to pass their phobias on generation to generation.”
― Trumpet
― Trumpet
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