Ootlin - Jenni Fagan

Dubbed the 'Patron Saint of Literary Street Urchins' by the New York Times, award winning novelist and poet Jenni Fagan is one of the most exciting literary voices in Britain today. Her literary memoir, Ootlin, is about a life raised by the state. Fagan was born in an institution and spent her early life and years in care. Fostered, adopted and moved multiples times, she developed a childhood fascination with stories and why people tell them. Ootlin is about dislocation, ceaselessly moving through all kinds of placements in a broken UK system. It's a story of what happens when the world makes you look at it from the outside in, how it is to be entirely rootless yet find the desire to transcend and create burns just as boldly as any tragedy.