Underclass
A Memoir
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Dr Jessica Taylor
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Dr Jessica Taylor grew up on a council estate where brutality and coercion were normalised, and where substance abuse was a day-to-day occurrence. Now one of the UK's most spirited advocates for women's rights, and a leading chartered psychologist helping women and girls subjected to violence and trauma, Jessica shares her own personal journey for the very first time.
Told through a series of absorbing vignettes spanning from her childhood days to gaining her PhD in forensic psychology, Underclass is a memoir about extraordinary strength, the complexities of belonging, and finding your power even when it feels as though the world is against you. Do you bend to fit in, or do you accept that you will always stand out? Do you run away from your roots, or love them for making you who you are? Do you fade into mediocrity, or do you change the world?
Taylor recounts with dark humour and unflinching detail the various lives she's lived, covering the violence suffered at the hands of her abusers, the realities of becoming a mother in her teenage years, coming to terms with her sexuality, putting herself through university, and overcoming underhand discrimination at work. She poignantly delves into both the classist and misogynistic double standards that she has faced throughout her life, whether she was waking up on a roundabout by the estate or chairing a parliamentary conference. You can take the girl out of the council estate, but you can't take the council estate out of the girl. Especially when it made her who she is today.
The result is deeply moving, searingly honest, horribly funny and, above all, unforgettable; a memoir that stays with you long after you've turned the last page.©2024 Jessica Taylor (P)2024 Hachette Audio UK
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- Kate Johnson
- 13-05-2024
Incredible story of determination and self belief
As a privileged doctor, I had taken on theoretically that Dr Jessica Taylor had grown up in a council estate but had never truly understood what this meant. The everyday experiences in her family, the women and men of the estate, the punitive responses from her school, teenage pregnancy from rape and abuse, and through all of it Dr Jessica Taylor worked her arse off, multiple jobs, studying, parenting. An incredible and moving story. I am so glad that Dr Taylor became a psychologist against the odds and has dedicated her life to helping victims, especially women, in a stacked system. I am so grateful for her for sharing this well written and moving memoir so privileged middle class folk like me can understand her experiences and endeavor not to treat others like her the same way. Cannot recommend this book enough
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- pink
- 20-05-2024
underclass, .class of her own
this audiobook was a very raw and open journey of some intimate parts of jess life. high recommended. cant wait to read more by this author, I'm on this first class train, hoody and all!
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- Bubble Gum
- 25-06-2024
The book held my attention completely
I couldn’t stop listening to you read Jess. Read your story. Your words penetrated into my psyche and I had many “Aha” moments and I heard myself talking along side you SO OFTEN. Thank you for another great book. More please!
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