The Crazy Truth Damion Searls

The Crazy Truth Damion SearlsIn 1984, Girlo Wolf is born into a world of pickets and poverty. She dreams of a world beyond the defunct slagheaps of post industrial Wales and, nurturing dreams of becoming a poet, seeks social mobility through education. Struggling with life long mental health challenges and the repercussions of childhood trauma, she falls into a dark underworld of sex, drugs and alcohol. Channelling her lived experiences, and those of her working class community,

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