~~Dance for your Daddy: The true story of a brutal East End childhood~~

Dance for your Daddy is a short book by Katherine Shellduck; it illustrates her life growing up in the East End with a brute for a father who pushed her mother into prostitution and her journey of being passed from pillar to post. Her Dad, a small-time gangster was thought to have links with the Cray twins and was always up to no good, her parents split up which then led to Kathy and her sisters having a brief stay in foster care before being sent to a boarding school paid for by her Mother's lover. Whilst Kathy is at home visiting she gets a shock when a familiar looking man draws a gun out and shoots a man four times, the victim is the Mother's lover.

The story is quite short and consists of 211 pages which I think is quite short for one of these books. I feel like the story wasn't very strong and I was finding my concentration drifting off from time to time. The story is very easy to read so anyone would be able to read this book without any difficulty. I am not too keen on this book I must say, I only finished the book because I felt as though I had to because I had started it. The story didn't quite measure up to the title it just seemed a bog standard unknown wannabe gangster's family tale, it was very predictable and I don't think the story was conveyed in the correct way as it just did not spark any emotional response from me, which these books normally do.

I would only recommend this book if you are after a quick read, I wouldn't recommend it on any other basis.

~~review also on Ciao~~