Pavement for My Pillow: The Astonishing Story of One Woman's Climb from Pitiful Baglady to Scholar and Writer

by Chris Kitch (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1996

  $3.29

  Born illegitimate in 1938, Chris Kitch grew up in the slums of Bradford. Rejected from school, dead-end jobs landed her into drink, drugs and prostitution in London. This book tells how she fought back to gain a BA Hons in English literature and a place at Oxford to take her MA.

• Used

  Paperback
  1997

  $3.44

  At 49 Chri Kitch started to climb out of her desperate situation; in the past seven years she has graduated with a BA Hons degree in English and women's studies, and has been accepted at Oxford to do a Master's degree. Her story is not self-pitying and it is not full of anger; it is compassionate and intelligent. Chris Kitch has been to hell and back and has emerged able to look at her extraordinary life witg humour and realism.