Finding my voice - Nadiya Hussain

'I am their daughter. They are me. I am my Baba's stubborn back bone and
his great brows. I am my mum's resilience and wide birthing hips. I am
their profanity, their nerves, I am their traditions, their hang ups,
their loss, their tears. I am their human, their child, their daughter.'

Born to parents who had emigrated to Britain from Bangladesh,
Nadiya Hussain's first roles were those of daughter and sister.
Considering her later roles as a devout Muslim entering an arranged
marriage and becoming a wife and mother herself, Nadiya questions the
barriers that many women, no matter who they are or where they live,
have to cross in order to be accepted or heard. Importantly, she shows
us how, at the core of it all, we are essentially tackling the
same
issues throughout our lives despite our cultural, social and
religious
differences.

Each chapter deals with a different role, and
Nadiya writes with warmth, humour, honesty and deep emotion about what
each one means to her and how she embodies all the different
expectations of these roles in her life. Writing about growing up in a
large family, who were culturally torn between two countries, to her
thoughts on becoming a celebrity, after winning The Great British Bake Off, the later chapters cover her more recent roles of 'baker', 'Twitter handle' and 'TV presenter'.