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

The author’s unique and moving life story of squalor, gangland violence, her mother’s murder and a frightening family of in-laws contains many extraordinary characters within an enclosed and seldom-revealed Glasgow of the 1960s to the 80s.

Janey Godley is a stand-up comedienne, actress, and playwright whose shows, Good Godley! and Janey Godley Is Innocent, have gone from the Edinburgh Fringe to London's West End. She appeared in her own one-woman play The Point of Yes to critical acclaim in the West End and has performed her shows to long-term prisoners in Scottish jails. She writes an award-winning online blog, has written for a number of print publications and is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4's Loose Ends.