Published: 25/07/2024
A deeply personal memoir reflecting on the murder of her two daughters in 2020 and the culture of misogyny and racism she witnessed within the Metropolitan police, Smallman's empowering and inspirational book is filled with hope and compassion in even the most horrific circumstances.
Mina Smallman has lived through the unimaginable. On Saturday 6 June 2020, her daughters, Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman, were killed in a park by a male stranger as they celebrated Bibaa's birthday.
Mina has been fighting for justice ever since - for her daughters, and for the rest of us, by challenging the toxic culture in the Metropolitan Police and calling out the wider institutional misogyny, racism and classism in Britain. Now, she tells her story for the first time. Framed by Mina's experience of losing her two daughters, Bibaa and Nicole, A Better Tomorrow reflects on the lessons in strength, forgiveness and hope that life has taught her - from her difficult childhood, to her embrace of motherhood, her time as a schoolteacher, and then as the first woman of colour to be an Archdeacon in the Church of England.
Told through grief and with compassion, humour and love, this deeply personal memoir is Mina's beacon of hope.
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
ISBN: 9781529199710
Number of pages: 256
Weight: 466 g
Dimensions: 241 x 163 x 23 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
Mina Smallman is as tough as she is warm - The Guardian
A strong, outspoken and eloquent activist - Daily Mail
I'd walk across hot coals to speak alongside Mina Smallman... An amazing woman - Jess Phillips, MP
Mina Smallman is all of us, except she's stronger than most of us - Dawn Butler, MP
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