I watched the glaze of headlights, the windscreens of oncoming cars: a series of trapezoids with the silhouette of a single male driver. One pulled up in front of me; I reached over and opened the door, slid in. The smell of an unfamiliar car. A middle-aged man looking at me. 'Hi,' I said. 'How are you'.
Kate Holden is accustomed 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.
In My Skin follows her journey from her reputation as a 'good girl' in the safe and leafy suburbs of Melbourne to the all-consuming attractions of heroin and the sex industry.
This is a story of survival and resourcefulness; an unflinching look at the consequences of addiction. Holden's journey leads her from a sheltered life in her loving family home to a world of sex for money - a seedy netherworld of back lanes, backseats and brothels.
More than just a fearless and compelling narrative, In My Skin is a triumphant announcement of a major new literary talent.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Epigraph
- Prologue
- I Was a Sensitive Little Girl
- It Was The Night of Our
- James Said a Friend of
- So I Went On
- I Tried. I Tried Swimming
- A Week After John
- It Was Winter When I Started
- I Still Called Myself
- The Street, Jake's Flat
- The Next Time I Went To See Daisy
- We Arrived At An Elegant
- We Lasted A Week In That Place
- Working Every Night
- It Was A New And Enthralling
- It Was A Small
- My Fears Were Emotional
- I Had Been At Mood
- Home Wasn't So Happy
- My House Was Furnished
- Later That Night I Got
- We Had A Calendar In The Kitchen
- One Night After
- The Next Day I Slept Late; Again
- By September I'd Have
- The Last Days Came Rushing Up Fast
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Copyright
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