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White Trash by Terry Angelos, reviewed by Nancy Richards

I thought “Digging up my past has not been easy” was a bit of an understatement from Terry Angelos, who notes that writing a book is often compared to birthing a child – and she would know. White Trash covers her descent into the ‘seedy underbelly’ of life as a 20-year-old high-class call girl in London – no easy ride. Luckily, as she wrote, she had not only her husband to ‘hold her hand and wipe away her tears,’ but midwife-publisher Melinda Ferguson who encouraged her to push hard and harder, till, I would imagine, the last drops of blood, sweat and tears were spewed and spent.

“It’s taken 32 years to feel ready to write down my story... this is my search to understand... the origins of my deviance.” So steel yourself. But the scabs at which she picks

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