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A Guardian book to look out for for 2024'A bold and intimate grappling with the hidden history at the heart of a childhood that was set up as a collectivist social experiment' EWAN MORRISON, author of How to Survive Everything'Strikingly good' NOREEN MASUD, author of A Flat PlaceIn the turbulent late seventies, six-year-old Susanna Crossman moved with her mother and siblings from a suburban terrace to a crumbling mansion deep in the English countryside.They would share their new home with over fifty other residents from all over the world, armed with worn paperbacks on ecology, Marx and radical feminism, drawn together by utopian dreams of remaking the world.They did not leave for fifteen years. While the Adults adopted new names and liberated themselves from domestic roles, the Kids ran free.In the community, nobody was too young to discuss nuclear war and children learned not to expect wiped noses or regular bedtimes.Instead, they made a home in a house with no locks or keys, never knowing when they opened doors whether they’d find violent political debates or couples writhing under sheets. Decades later, and armed with hindsight, Crossman revisits her past, turning to leading thinkers in philosophy, sociology and anthropology to examine the society she grew up in, and the many meanings of family and home.In this luminous memoir, she asks what happens to children who are raised as the product of social experiments and explores how growing up estranged from the outside world shapes her as a parent today. 'Crossman writes with such curiosity and heart-breaking honesty of what it is to find her own truth.I was enthralled by this book' LILY DUNN, author of Sins of my Father'Beautiful, bold, tender.I loved this gorgeous memoir about making home' PRAGYA AGARWAL, author of Hysterical

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