I Had It In Me

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This compelling memoir by Leonie Orton, youngest sister of the playwright Joe Orton, brilliantly evokes growing up on the same Leicester council estate in the 1940s and 1950s. For the first time she recounts how the family coped with his brutal murder and lost diaries. She writes of her fight to educate herself, nurture her brother’s legacy and become her own woman.‘Intensely moving and hilariously funny. Like her brother, Joe, Leonie Orton uses dark comedy with devastating effect to pinpoint the stark truths about families, love, sex and death. I couldn’t put it down.’ [Jake Arnott, novelist]‘A terrific story. Gets under your skin.’ [John Lahr, writer and theatre critic]