Pavement for My Pillow: The Astonishing Story of One Woman's Climb from Pitiful Baglady to Scholar and Writer by Chris Kitch
At 49 Chri Kitch started to climb out of her desperate situation; in the past seven years she has graduated with a BA Hons degree in English and women's studies, and has been accepted at Oxford to do a Master's degree. Her story is not self-pitying and it is not full of anger; it is compassionate and intelligent. Chris Kitch has been to hell and back and has emerged able to look at her extraordinary life witg humour and realism.