Zadie Smith about her mother, father and White Teeth
Best-selling British author Zadie Smith wasn’t in the news because she wrote a new book, but because she claimed her childhood home was brimful of books – but most had been borrowed from a local library by her mother and not returned.
“I didn’t steal books from library, says mother of Zadie Smith,” wrote the Daily mail.
Her mother Yvonne Bailey-Smith, 56, agreed that her home had been full of books but insisted she bought most of them herself, spending up to £80 a time at local bookshops.
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