Handstands In The Dark: A True Story of Growing Up and Survival by Janey Godley

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

Janey Godley

416 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction memoir challenging dark fast-paced

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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, reli...

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dark 80%
emotional 70%
sad 60%
inspiring 40%
challenging 30%
funny 30%
hopeful 30%
reflective 30%
tense 10%

Pace

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fast 44%
slow 11%

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