{"product_id":"9780241590645","title":"Eight Weeks by Baroness Lola Young     Published: 2nd Oct 2025","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEight Weeks is a deeply moving and inspiring memoir that tells the remarkable life story of Baroness Young of Hornsey, from her childhood in foster care, to becoming one of the first Black women in the House of Lords.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLola Young has been an actress, an academic, an activist and campaigner for social justice, and a crossbench peer. But from the age of eight weeks to eighteen years, she was moved between foster care placements and children's homes in North London. It would take many decades before she was able to begin the search for answers to the long-standing questions that would help her make sense of her childhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Eight Weeks, through her care records, fragments of memory, and her imagination where parts of her story are missing, Lola assembles the pieces of her past into a portrait of a childhood in a system that often made her feel invisible and unwanted. Alongside glimpses into her life as a peer, activist, and campaigner it tells the powerful story of her determination to defy the odds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEight Weeks is a spirited, eye-opening and beautifully written account of being a child in care and a Black child in a white family and is a vital part of contemporary Black British history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Baroness Lola Young\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003ePostwar period, 1945 to c 2000\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 2 October 2025 by Penguin Books Ltd in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 336 pages\u003cbr\u003e196 x 129 | 237g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paperback \/ softback","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55268402561400,"sku":"9780241590645","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0409\/6671\/7600\/files\/9780241590645.jpg?v=1757063936","url":"https:\/\/afroribooks.co.uk\/products\/9780241590645","provider":"Afrori Books LTD","version":"1.0","type":"link"}