A phenomenal memoir. I am in awe' AMY LIPTROT 'Beautiful, deep,dangerous, transfixing . . . it will burn a home in your heart, it has inmine. Read every word of every page. Turn them carefully. Jenni Fagan is madeof fire and spirit. From start to finish I could not put it down. Close thedoor. Sit down now. Read Ootlin. Read' LEMN SISSAY 'Essential reading, lifechanging, I couldn't stop reading once I started . . . Unbelievably brave. Beautiful , earth shattering and unforgettable. A truly rare talent' SAMANTHAMORTON The government told a story about me before I was born. Jenni Fagan wasproperty of the state before birth. She drew her first breath in care and bythe age of seven, she had lived in fourteen different homes and had changedname multiple times. Twenty years after her first attempt to write thispowerful memoir, Jenni is finally ready to share her account. Ootlin is ajourney through the broken UK care system - it is one of displacement andexclusion, but also of the power of storytelling. It is about the very humanact of making meaning from adversity.