Like the best memoirs this one is written with novelistic & poetic flair. Red Dust Road is a fantastic probing & heart-warming read
- Independent". From the moment when as a little girl she realizes that her skin is a different colour from that of her beloved mum & dad to the tracing & finding of her birth parents her Highland mother & Nigerian father Jackie Kays journey in " Red Dust Road" is one of unexpected twists turns & deep emotions. In a book remarkable for its warmth & candour she discovers that inheritance is about much more than genes: that we are shaped by songs as much as by cells & that what triumphs ultimately is love. A clear-eyed witty & unsentimental account of the push & pull between nature & nurture. Happiness shines through
- " Sunday Times". Wonderful humane.. . This is a book with resolution determination & honesty
- " Scotland on Sunday". It is Kays abundant wit that makes Red Dust Road such a moving spirited work. This is a terrifically easy evocative & often amusing read.. .A remarkable soul-searching journey
- " Sunday Herald"."