Handstands in the Dark - Couverture rigide

Godley, Janey

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0091900298 ISBN 13 : 9780091900298

Editeur : Ebury Press, 2005

Synopsis

Janey Godley tells her unique life story. Brought up amid near-Dickensian squalor in the tough East End of Glasgow and sexually abused by her uncle, she 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, Handstands in the Dark is an evocative, intimate and moving portrayal of a woman forced to fight every day for her family's future.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Janey Godley is a 42-year-old mother 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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ebury Press
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0091900298
• ISBN 13: 9780091900298
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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