‘How books illuminated my journey of queer self-discovery’
For World Book Day, Just Like Us ambassador Sarah Sharp is reflecting on the stories that gave them pride in their queer identity.
WORDS BY SARAH SHARP Some of my earliest book memories are family trips heading to WHSmith with our World Book Day book vouchers.
We would be given our vouchers at school, and I would hold on tight to that ticket, wanting to keep it crease-free. Our parents would then be very patient with me and my siblings as the three of us ran to the stand of books, before spending an age making our choices.
We would also have enormous fun scavenging the house for book character costumes to go to school in. In the years that went by I remember dressing up as Angelina Ballerina, Pippi Longstocking, and one year also, of course, Sarah the Sunday Fairy.
