TY  - BOOK
AU  - Holden,Kate
TI  - In my skin: a memoir 
SN  - 1920885900 :
U1  - 362.29 HOL 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Melbourne
PB  - Text Publishing
KW  - Holden, Kate,
KW  - Heroin abuse
KW  - Australia
KW  - Biography
KW  - Drug addicts
KW  - Prostitutes
N2  - 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
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