Ugly - Constance Briscoe Reviews

Over the last few years there has been a growing trend for 'misery-lit' titles - books which are memoirs of abuse, betrayal, real life misery and generally less than fortunate upbringing. They are extremely upsetting to read but they hold a strange kind of curiosity and fascination. I personally find that these books help me to put a lot of things ...

Introduction ========== My Manager had bought this book and had leant it to her sister (who also works with me) and once she had finished it the Manager could not be bothered to walk home with it so leant it to me. I only decided to read the book because I had read other people's review on the book sometime ago and ...

Brilliant book Constance ... you have my remosre and I praise your bravery at sharing your childhood with us....may we all learn how precious children's little lives are. May our society never overlookd the need to help those children who may suffer systematical abusive homes.....They do Exsist!!!!! Wonderful girl and this book is a ...

I picked this book up from the book clubs that go round workplaces. I hadn’t heard of the book but it looked interesting – this was purely from the front cover, and as usual, there are always special offers available. I thought to myself, if it isn’t a good read it hasn’t cost me a lot of money. How wrong could I be? A good read? This was an ...

The oxford dictionary defines the word UGLY as unpleasant to look at-unattractive, so I guess at some point in all our lives we have all been guilty of calling something or somebody ugly. For all the mothers out there who may read this, could you or would you ever call your child ugly? No? somehow i didn't think you would ...