Award winning author, Esua Goldsmith grew up "being an only " in a white working class neighborhood in the 1950s in south London. She was the mixed race daughter of a white single mom and a Ghanaian father who she never knew as a child. Often being "an only one", Esua describes the feeling of being "an alien dropped from outer space".

This pervasive emotion ran like a thread throughout her life. She did not see herself, in books she read , or on the television, or in stories told or anywhere else.

Esuantsiwa Jane Goldsmith (Esua) was the first and only woman of colour elected as President of Leicester University Students Union in the 1970s. She talks about her first book called "The Space Between Black and White", which was published by Jacaranda#2020.