'I was ordered to work in Co-Op until I had a baby - now I've written a bestseller'
- Posted on March 8, 2026
- By The Mirror
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'I was ordered to work in Co-Op until I had a baby - now I've written a bestseller'

After winning a competition run by actor Michael Sheen and The Mirror to find working class writers, disabled Welsh mum Maya Jordan has written her first funny and powerful bestseller about growing up 'the povo kid' on a rural council estate - the lack of prospects for girls like her, the shame she still suffers, and her fears for the one million destitute children in the UK