Jacqueline Crooks: ‘Toni Morrison’s voice made me want to find my own’
My earliest reading memoryI was eight when I was given The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley, after being moved from my grandmother’s care to live with my mother and her husband, who I barely knew. The story is about leaving one world, adapting to another. Surviving. It gave shape to unnamed feelings and developed my survival imagination: imagining…