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An incredibly honest tale of survival escape and resilience The Observer
Roche is a charming unflinchingly honest guide on a journey thats as funny as it is heartbreaking JUNO DAWSON
How does an untrained eye recognise the process of dying when your mind is fixed firmly on living
A radically honest and uplifting memoir about defying death and learning to live
Juno Roche was born into a workingclass family in London in the sixties who dabbled in minor crime For their father violence and love lived together for their mother addiction was the only way to survive School was a respite but shortly after beginning their university course Juno was diagnosed with HIV then a death sentence
Juno is a survivor they outlived their diagnosis got a degree and became an artist But however hard you try to take the kid out of the family some scars go too deep trying to run from AIDS and their childhood threw Juno into dark years of serious drug addiction addiction often financed by sex work
Running from home eventually took Juno across the sea to a tiny village in Spain surrounded by mountains Only once they found a quiet little house with an olive tree in the garden did Juno start to wonder if they had run too far and whether they have really been searching for a family all along
In an incredibly honest and brave book Juno takes us through the moments of their life Mum sending Christmas cards containing Valium drug withdrawal on a River Nile cruise overcoming their fathers violence and finding their dream house in Spain Showing immense resilience Junos memoir is a book about what it means to stay alive
Emotional tragic and incredibly funny A WorkingClass Family Ages Badly is an unforgettable mustread memoir for anyone who loves Educated Deborah Levy and Motherwell
Delicate and devastating Up there with the best of them HANNAH LOWE WINNER OF THE COSTA PRIZE
Full of heart wit and charm Im obsessed with this book Travis Alabanza
So gripping I had to make myself slow down to appreciate the quality of the writing Such a powerful story and so beautifully written Paul Burston
Utterly unique Nobody can write with warmth and confrontation the way Juno can Tom Rasmussen
Compassionate dreamlike and deeply moving CN Lester
Should be read by everyone Irenosen Okojie
Juno has always been a literary voice like no one else scathingly honest and endlessly expansive Amelia Abraham
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