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Handstands in the Dark : a True Story of Growing Up and Survival by Godley, Janey is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
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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 t
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Godley, Janey
- Publisher
- Random House
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780091908775
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- History, Child Abuse, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.02 / 5 (87 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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