In My Skin: A Memoir - Kate Holden

I have just finished this book and it is what I call a real page turner. I really enjoyed it, which is a difficult thing to say about such a dark book. Kate is a well brought up quiet and shy girl from a loving and happy family. No abuse, no divorces or major issues. You do get the feeling that she has a few issues with herself, perhaps feelings of worthlessness, although how and why she acquires these feelings has is not at all clear. She is intelligent and goes to Uni to study and gets a degree in history of art. After Uni she gradually drifts into a bad crowd and ends up as a heroin addict and then the spiral is downwards as the drug takes over her ...  Read the complete review

I was given this book by a friend after she had read it – I won’t bore you with her comments but she’d intrigued me so I had to read it. I love any kind of books really and once I have started to read one I will always make sure I finish no matter how hard going the book may be. So what did I think of this one. The book is written by Kate Holden and it is a true story. If follows her life and in it she shares her thoughts and experiences living in Melbourne, Australia. The daughter of loving parents and with one sibling they seemed like the ideal family. Kate begins the book by sharing her earliest child hood memories and recounts feeling different ...  Read the complete review