Handstands in the Dark

by Janey Godley

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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...Read more
  • ISBN10 0091900298
  • ISBN13 9780091900298
  • Publish Date 2 June 2005
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 12 November 2014
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Ebury Publishing
  • Imprint Ebury Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 336
  • Language English