Katriona O'Sullivan

And I don't just mean for food.

I was hungry for a hug, for someone to teach me I was valuable, to make me feel safe.

But food hunger was a big issue in my home.

And so I start the book talking about, I suppose, how it felt to have a body that was hungry as a child and how that feeling interfered with everything.

Yeah.

So I it's this is not an academic term.

Hopefully one day it will be.

But sometimes people refer to someone who some people are working class and some people are underclass.

That's the sociological term for it.

But I grew up in a community that was all poor.

All of us were in a council estate and everyone was struggling for money.

But some of us had different values.

We had more trauma and we had less food supply.

And for me, we were poor, poor.

And then there was the other families that were just struggling for money, but they had love in their home.

And I talk about my next door neighbours, who are these lovely little family, an Irish family, three little girls.

And they had no money.

Their dad drove a white van.

He was a builder of some sort.

But the mam loved them and she sent them to school and she hugged them every day and she fed them.