It's survival on the street, stripped Bare

LORNA Tucker's memoir Bare is a searingly honest account of life on the edge, charting her descent into addiction and homelessness as a teenager, and her long, painful climb back.

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It's not a story of overnight redemption or dramatic turning points. It's messier than that, and all the more powerful for it. So compelled was I by it, I read it in one day.

Growing up in Watford, Tucker's early life was turbulent. By her early teens she was drifting, pulled into dangerous circles, making desperate decisions, and finding herself increasingly cut off from any sort of support.