Sour: My Story - A troubled girl from a broken home. The Brixton gang she nearly died

They call me Sour. The opposite of sweet. Shanking, stabbing, steaming, robbing, I did it all, rolling with the Man Dem. I did it because I was bad. I did it because I had heart. And the reason I reckon I got away with it for so long? Because I was a girl.

About the author

Tracey Miller is a campaigning single mum from South London who is passionate about urging teenagers not to follow her own path into gang life. A former member of the Younger 28s, a notorious gang that terrorised the postcodes around Brixton, she escaped a troubled family life, which included a rapist father and a mentally ill mother, to immerse herself in the street life of likking and linking. After serving time in HM Prison Holloway, she turned her life around to put her gangland past behind her.
Lucy Bannerman is a senior news reporter and feature writer at The Times. She was named Young Journalist of The Year at the British Press Awards in 2006.

Summary

They call me Sour. The opposite of sweet. Shanking, stabbing, steaming, robbing, I did it all, rolling with the Man Dem. I did it because I was bad. I did it because I had heart. And the reason I reckon I got away with it for so long? Because I was a girl.

Product details

• Authors: Lucy Bannerman, Bannerman Lucy, Tracey Miller, Tracey Bannerman Miller, Miller Tracey
• Publisher: Element Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.08.2014
• EAN: 9780007565047
• ISBN: 978-0-00-756504-7
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Memoiren, Berichte/Erinnerungen, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, True Crime, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Criminals & Outlaws, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sexual Abuse & Harassment, Memoirs, TRUE CRIME / Organized Crime, Coping with personal problems, True stories of heroism, endurance & survival, Violence in society, True stories of survival of abuse & injustice, Crime & criminology, Street crime, Violence and abuse in society, Offenders, Street Crime / Gun Crime, Victimology and victims of crime, Coping with / advice about abuse, Gang;Notorious 28s;Gang girl;Brixton