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Holden, Kate, 1972-

In my skin : a memoir / Kate Holden. - Melbourne : Text Publishing, 2005. - 285 p. ; 23 cm.

Kate Holden is used to being summed up at a glance: arts graduate, history buff, middle-class daughter, dreamer, innocent. But she is a young woman who understands better than most the secrets that people keep hidden. This astonishing debut follows her journey from the safe and leafy suburbs of Melbourne to the all-consuming attractions of heroin and the sex industry. This is a story - confronting and utterly compelling - of survival and resourcefulness; an unflinching look at the consequences of addiction and the struggle of power and control that addicts face. Holden's journey leads her to a world of sex for money, from the seedy netherworld of back lanes and backseats to the security, both real and imagined, provided by brothels. This is a moving, at times brutal, memoir from a prodigiously talented new voice. Kate Holden has produced a searingly honest and wonderfully written account of a life on the streets, on drugs and on the skids.

ISBN: 1920885900 : $32.00

Subjects--Personal Names:
Holden, Kate, 1972-

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Heroin abuse--Australia--Biography.
Drug addicts--Australia--Biography.
Prostitutes--Australia--Biography.

Dewey Class. No.: 362.29 HOL