Pavement for My Pillow: The Astonishing Story of One Woman's Climb from Pitiful Baglady to Scholar and Writer by Chris Kitch
Born illegitimate in 1938, Chris Kitch grew up in the slums of Bradford. Rejected from school, dead-end jobs landed her into drink, drugs and prostitution in London. This book tells how she fought back to gain a BA Hons in English literature and a place at Oxford to take her MA.