Description:ISBN 0091921503 / Genre: Biography / Author: Katherine Shellduck / Paperback / 320 Pages / Book is published 2007-05-24 by Ebury Press / ... more

Dance for Your Daddy - Katherine Shellduck ... 'This morning I found this bag. I had been looking for sweets. I put my hand in the bag and felt a sticky liquid on my fingers, then I looked at it. It was a red smear. Then I looked in the bag: bloody knives and clothes. It didn't feel good. What did it mean? I don't know. There are no answers; I daren't ask the questions' Growing up in poverty in London's East End, Kathy was eight years old when her father forced her mother into prostitution. When their mother fled, leaving Kathy and her sisters behind, the girls stuck fiercely together while being passed from children's homes to boarding schools. Then, on a rare trip home, Kathy looked out the window to see a man firing four shots into a Rolls-Royce. It took several seconds for her to realise the victim was her mother's lover, and the gunman was her father. Kathy began her haunting memoir when, as an adult, she travelled back to London, to find out who her gangster father really was. A compelling memoir of an extraordinary childhood, "Dance for your Daddy" is a true story of the effects on one family of poverty, affluence, violence and love.

Newest Review: ... this book was the easy conversational tone in which it was written . Kathy writes not as an adult, but from the perspective ... more

 ... of the confused eight year old girl she was at the time, with all a child's confused loyalties and unconditional love. She speaks very fondly of her sisters, and quickly manages to establish each of them as having a unique and well formed personality, and this clear and concise way of writing makes the book very easy to read with no confusion of events . Going into too much detail of the happenings of the book would give away spoilers, but circumstances after the departure of the girls mother were very unsettled f...more