Dancing Barefoot: How To Be Common

Scrabbling for a foothold on the glass mountain of freelance hackery, Glyn's trying to write a book in the gaps between sub-editing on tabloids and marketing stints scribbling copy about soft-close toilets. In other news, her relationship is crumbling and something's not right with her health. Everything is going wrong. And then seventeen working-class heroines from history gallop over the horizon… Frank, deeply moving and very, very funny, this is a conversation between one blue-collar woman making her way in 21st century London and a clutch of charismatic females from the past, all with similar issues, who drop by to pilfer her cigarette stash, make her coffee – and show her how life can work out. ‘A beautifully-written, honest and beguiling memoir and detective story. A real gem of a book’ Kate Mosse