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

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When you're bored of comedians telling you things you know and the comfortable laughter of recognition, go and watch Janey Godley for a change.

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After reading Handstands I am surprised that she not only laughed again, but also developed a rare talent to make us laugh again. As a teenager, Janey marries into a gangster family and even though her husband beats her and she is always threatening to leave it seems that they are still together, which I wasn’t expecting. 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, Handstands in the Dark is an evocative, intimate and moving portrayal of a woman forced to fight every day for her family's future. Understandable why neither he nor their daughter will not read the book but are proud of Janey for its success. I read this book in less than a week- it is very well written and easy to read, but heart breaking at the same time.This book also needs a bit of a firmer hand from the editor to stop repetition and sort out timelines, which can be distracting. I found the chapters to repeat itself, I started to skim pages as I could guess what it was going to say. 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. She was born in Shettleston in 1961 surrounded by characters and poverty that even Dickens might have thought a bit much. Thankyou to Janey and Ashley both for reminding me what courage looks like when it's not wearing Spandex.

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In 2020, Godley wrote and starred in a series of short films titled Alone, about a recently widowed housewife whose abusive husband has died of COVID-19, as part of the National Theatre of Scotland's Scenes for Survival webseries. Born in the tough East End of Glasgow and married into one of the city's most notorious criminal families, Janey Godley's young life was far from ordinary. And unfortunately the lives depicted remind me of several I knew as a wee lad in 1960s Gorbals and Bridgeton. Comedian Ashley Storrie on why playing an autistic young woman in her first dramatic role has helped her open up about her own diagnosis".Multi-award-winning Scottish comedienne, playwright, award-winning blogger, best-selling author and former Scotsman newspaper columnist Janey Godley has performed her comedy shows and one-woman play around the world, including off-Broadway in New York. Born in the tough East End of Glasgow and married into one of the city’s most notorious criminal families, Janey Godley’s young life was far from ordinary. Overall not a very satisfying read, too many holes in her story to make the compelling tale expected.

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

And there’s the small matter of marrying into a criminal family while either keeping her head in the sand or pretending not to know what’s going on. brands, products in thousands of categories from hundreds of retailers to give you reliable purchasing advice.

If this was a fiction you’d have trouble finding redemptive characters in the story, even Janey herself who Just about survives in it.

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