In My Skin

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Much to the horror of her close-knit family, Kate Holden went from a comfortable middle-class home in Melbourne to the netherworld of drugs and commercial sex. A prolific diary writer, Kate Holden chronicled her journey from a university graduate with an honours degree in classics and literature, to heroin addiction and becoming a sex worker under the name of 'Lucy'. Her story is a fascinating look at the darker side of life and how a family came to grips with their daughter's dark odyssey