My Fathers' Daughter

Groundbreaking . . . Displaying a deft touch in warm prose . . . Pool’s personal journey encourages shift, transformation, and a commitment to ongoing survival

Wasafiri

Her story is as much about an adopted child facing up to the challenge of tracing her biological family as it is about her search for African roots . . . Pool's candour is striking . . . [She gives] a sense of what it is like to be a young person of African descent who is unquestionably British

Observer

The sentiment is never pity... rather awe - at the depth of Hannah's experience, her courage in confronting it and her sucess in making sense of it all

The Times

In this beautifully honest book, Pool gives us a front-row view of how identity is built up, but also how it's dismantled . . . Simply engrossing

Time Out

What a story. So vivid, honest and moving

Andrea Levy, author of Small Island