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"A curse on being ordinary! Wrong is not her name. Her name is Maya Jordan. She is a noisy woman and we should fear her"—Michael Sheen
A sharply funny, furious and rousing account of a life lived in triumphant opposition to the limitations and systemic inequalities of a working-class woman’s life.
Underestimated and overlooked at each stage and age, Maya Jordan’s ambition and resilience was born in the library and nourished by reading and the Open University – through early motherhood, precarious housing, caring responsibilities and chronic disability – to a point where she finally seizes her right to write.
"A triumphant success story about clearing a path for yourself and finding the freedom, words, and perhaps courage in mid-life to put pen to paper"—Claire Malcolm, New Writing North
Maya Jordan was selected by A Writing Chance, a programme launched by actor and writer Michael Sheen with New Writing North, to support working-class and under-represented writers. Her work has been performed by Sheen for BBC Radio Wales’ Margins to Mainstream and was highlighted by him in a recent TEDx Talk Levelling the Cultural Playing Field.