Creative non-fiction essays on growing up in the UK care system, class, belonging, music and writing. Exploring the strange business of becoming someone the statistics said you wouldn’t.
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Escaping Alcatraz: The Island I Took With Me
This essay is structured in the form of a crossword. YOU DON’T HAVE TO SOLVE IT TO UNDERSTAND THE ESSAY. If you want to have a go, I hope you enjoy it. Answers at the bottom.
ACROSS
- It’s been ten years since I managed to escape. I can...
The social worker who asked me questions
I don’t have any pictures of Julie and me together, but this is her.
Julie was my social worker for 18 months when I was 15 years old. She died recently. I never thought I’d ever attend a social worker’s funeral, let alone speak at one. I...
Outside the Gates: John Lennon and the Childhood We Keep Getting Wrong
David and I stood outside the replica gates at Strawberry Field, Liverpool.
“They’re not the real gates, ya know”, explained David, an old care worker from when I lived in children’s homes on the Isle of Man. I looked at them, confused as...
Support lands where music is played, not where it's made.
Photo by Lucas Alexander on Unsplash
Originally published in Music Week - Aug 2026.
Somewhere in the Treasury building, the Exchequer Secretary is drawing up a list to fund Andy Burnham’s business rates cut for the 32,000 p...
Studios saved me, so I’m trying to save them.
About two years ago, I got a call while I was standing outside a coffee shop. A studio called and asked me for help. Being a director of the Music Producers Guild, I thought this was just another piece of casework. Maybe it could be fixed w...
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Care leaver, writer, and award-winning music producer. From children’s homes to Uni of Oxford, I write literary nonfiction about the UK care system, class, belonging, music, and the lives we’re expected to lead. Represented by Curtis Brown.
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