Product reviews for Because of You, This is Me

Jaz Ampaw-Farr’s book is shocking, searing, moving and enraging yet ultimately uplifting. All the right feelings we should be feeling when confronted by a story as powerful and as honestly told as this. Jaz’s USP is her honesty, her refusal to bend the truth so it can be palatable or ‘presented’, and this is why her work always leads us by the gut, galvanising us not to tolerate what is unfair, unequal and disrespectful, and to gather the courage to call out the unacceptable. The heroes in her world are teachers and not just because hers helped her, but because she recognises and celebrates the fact that a teacher has the most important job in the whole world: encouraging, nurturing and architecting the next generation.