num_pages: 286
description: Brutally honest account of a life of heroin addiction and prostitution. Despite the subject Holden's prose weaves around the subject matter beautifully. There was so much detail in her descrptions of life in the brothel that I felt like I was a fly on the wall. At times the length of these descriptions could have been kept shorter but on the whole a throughly engrossing book.
language: English
title: In My Skin
titlecomplete: In My Skin
genres: Biography, Autobiography, Prostitution, Mental Health, Psychology, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir, Sex Work, Australia, Memoir
ratings_count: 5297
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA)
category: Newcomer, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Dobbie Literary Award
publisher: Canongate Books Ltd