Handstands in the Dark
The moving and honest memoir of survival from Janey Godley - 'An extraordinary life', BILLY CONNOLLY

The librarian looked at me when I checked this book out. I’m used to this, being very handsome, a bit like a young Sean Connery only older and balder and a bit more in the beef stakes. But the librarian was a man. I’ve nothing against that kind of thing. These barriers are breaking down. If a librar......more

I have to say that I came to this book after finding Janey Godley's parodies of Nicola Sturgeon on twitter and then also a couple of wonderful things on the BBC. I then found her and her daughter on facebook during lockdown just chatting away to people and I wanted to know more about this lady. This......more

I read this book while travelling on the train back from Edinburgh to London from my cousins hen weekend. Having met the Author after her comedy stand up show under the damp arches of the comedy festival,she was suffering from a bad chest at the time from the damp but still managed to make us laugh,......more

Our newest street book group read, the late Glaswegian comedienne Janey Godley’s autobiography. I listened to the audio version, narrated by the author, which I would say is the only way to do it. She recounts her upbringing in Shettleston, a tough district in Glasgow’s East End, her survival of depr......more

This is a tragic life story book. Janey lives in Glasgow and grows up with an abusive uncle and poverty driven life. As a teenager, Janey marries into a gangster family and even though her husband beats her and she is always threatening to leave it seems that they are still together, which I wasn’t......more