- Published: 28 December 2024
- ISBN: 9780241590638
- Imprint: Fig Tree
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 336
- RRP: $42.99
Eight Weeks
Looking Back, Moving Forwards, Defying the Odds

















- Published: 28 December 2024
- ISBN: 9780241590638
- Imprint: Fig Tree
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 336
- RRP: $42.99
I love Eight Weeks ... Baroness Lola Young reveals how a child is constantly wronged by a system which was supposed to help ... In Eight Weeks Lola befriends her childhood self. She holds her by the hand as they enter the storm of a system raging around her. I am in awe of the woman who grew from the child in this book ... The pure character necessary to grow through this dark entangled forest of childhood is the stuff of legends. Bravissima Lola
Lemn Sissay, author of My Name is Why
I love Eight Weeks ... Baroness Lola Young reveals how a child is constantly wronged by a system which was supposed to help ... In Eight Weeks Lola befriends her childhood self. She holds her by the hand as they enter the storm of a system raging around her. I am in awe of the woman who grew from the child in this book ... The pure character necessary to grow through this dark entangled forest of childhood is the stuff of legends. Bravissima Lola
Lemn Sissay, author of My Name is Why
A remarkable account of rejection, resilience and resolve. Lola has unashamedly let us into the vulnerability that came with her surpassing expectations and perfectly portrays the essential human need to belong
Michelle Gayle
A remarkable account of rejection, resilience and resolve. Lola has unashamedly let us into the vulnerability that came with her surpassing expectations and perfectly portrays the essential human need to belong
Michelle Gayle
A remarkable book: at once beautiful and harrowing, deeply unsettling and profoundly life-affirming. It is, quite simply, the best memoir that I’ve read on 50s Britain
John Akomfrah
A remarkable book: at once beautiful and harrowing, deeply unsettling and profoundly life-affirming. It is, quite simply, the best memoir that I’ve read on 50s Britain
John Akomfrah
A superb, moving memoir of a fraught childhood forging a great human spirit. Inspirational!
Helena Kennedy LT KC
A superb, moving memoir of a fraught childhood forging a great human spirit. Inspirational!
Helena Kennedy LT KC
Lola Young takes us on a remarkable journey, both personal and political, that few have travelled but all can relate to. An inspiring story from an inspirational storyteller.
Gary Younge
Lola Young takes us on a remarkable journey, both personal and political, that few have travelled but all can relate to. An inspiring story from an inspirational storyteller.
Gary Younge