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 the discos of the 70s, to the tidal wave of heroin addiction which swept through and engulfed Glasgow's East End during the 1980s.
This evocative, intimate and moving portrayal of a woman forced to fight every day for her family's future will strike a chord with anyone who has ever struggled against adversity.
- ISBN10 0091908779
- ISBN13 9780091908775
- Publish Date 3 August 2006 (first published 2 June 2005)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 April 2024
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Ebury Publishing
- Imprint Ebury Press
- Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
- Pages 416
- Language English