Handstands In The Dark: A True Story of Growing Up and Survival - Softcover

Godley, Janey

 
9780091908775: Handstands In The Dark: A True Story of Growing Up and Survival
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0091908779 ISBN 13: 9780091908775
Verlag: Ebury Press, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

Brought up amid near-Dickensian squalour in the tough East End of Glasgow and sexually abused by her uncle, Janey married into a Glasgow criminal family as a teenager, then found herself having to cope with the murder of her mother, violence, religious sectarianism, abject poverty and a frightening family of in-laws.

First-hand, Janey saw the gangland violence and met extraordinary characters within an enclosed and seldom-revealed Glasgow underworld - from the grim and far-from-Swinging 60s, to the discos of the 70s, to the tidal wave of heroin addiction which swept through and engulfed Glasgow's East End during the 1980s.

This evocative, intimate and moving portrayal of a woman forced to fight every day for her family's future will strike a chord with anyone who has ever struggled against adversity.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Janey Godley is an award-winning comedian from Glasgow and something very different on the comedy circuit. She has performed stand-up all over the world and had her first play performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 2003. This is her first book.

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Verlag
Ebury Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0091908779
ISBN 13 
9780091908775
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
416
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