Baggage: My Childhood

by Janet Street-Porter

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Brilliant, brave, controversial, combative, intellectual - just how do you become Janet Street-Porter? Born in working-class Fulham to parents who for years she refused to believe were really hers, Janet loathed her mother, tried to murder her sister, and had a friend who was given a life sentence for a contract killing. In a household subsumed with repressive 'Welshness' (even the budgerigar spoke Welsh), she found solace in unsuitable friendships and outrageous behaviour. In this mesmerising account of growing up in post-war London there is poignancy, mystery - and a trademark black humour. "Baggage" will touch readers at many levels; it is as edgy and fearless as Janet Street-Porter herself.
  • ISBN10 075531266X
  • ISBN13 9780755312665
  • Publish Date 3 January 2005 (first published 10 May 2004)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 17 March 2011
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Headline Publishing Group
  • Imprint Headline Book Publishing
  • Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
  • Pages 288
  • Language English