BORSTAL GIRL
Book ID/图书代码： 12290011B46670
English Summary/英文概要： Born into a fog-ridden south London slum in 1931, Eileen Killick quickly learned to look after herself. Her brothers were wayward, her mum had TB and her dad was working all hours on the railways. By the time she was fourteen she had survived the Blitz, a spell in a care home and her mother’s death, but she craved excitement, embarking on shoplifting sprees, liberating fur coats and rolling toffs up west with notorious ’queen of thieves’ Shirley Pitts. Eileen soon found herself in borstal, put to work building roads like a navvy. Known as ’Kill’, she had a reputation as one of the hardest woman behind bars. Then, in the 1950s she met and married career criminal Harry ’Big H’ MacKenney, and she was soon fraternising with the toughest, most colourful characters in the London underworld. She went on to have four children, whom she loved and protected, but life was extremely tough and Eileen fell back into her old ways, thieving and fighting to make ends meet. The 1970s brought police corruption and brutality to Eileen’s doorstep. When Harry was banged up, Eileen carried on the ’family business’ alone and found herself on the wrong side of the law - again. Yet throughout a catalogue of trouble this defiant London bad girl of the old school always kept her defiant sense of humour. Borstal Girl is a true story of shocking violence and survival that pulls no punches, but it is also a secret criminal history of a London long past. There is no other female memoir like it.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 愛琳 克琳立克1931年出生於濃霧彌漫的倫敦南部的貧民區，她很快就學會了照顧自己。她的兄長們都很任性，母親患有結核病，而父親的全部時間都在鐵路工作。當她十四歲時曾倖免於閃電戰，接著在一段時間顧家後，母親去世了，然而她卻有一種渴望中的興奮感，愛琳開始著手冒充商店顧客進行行竊，她開敞的皮大衣和紈絝子弟式的搖擺做派讓她成為像雪麗 皮特夫婦那樣，西部臭名昭著的“小偷皇后”。愛琳很快就發現自己進了青少年管教所進行勞動，就像一台挖土機一樣投入到修建道路。也就在那時她擁有了一個最艱難女人身陷囹圄的名號，被稱為“殺死”。然後，在20世紀50年代，愛琳遇到了並嫁給了一個有刑事犯罪生涯的哈利“大H ”麥肯尼，她很快就與這個在倫敦的黑社會的惡棍，最豐富多彩的人物親近了。她有了四個可愛和招人疼孩子，但生活是極其艱難的，愛琳回落到她的老路上，靠竊取來艱難維持生計。70年代警員腐敗和殘暴把他們帶到愛琳的家門口。當哈利倒下，愛琳獨自承擔了“家族事業”，她發現自己又一次站在法律的對立面。然而這個不斷製造麻煩愛挑釁倫敦守舊女孩保持這目空一切的幽默感。青少年管教所女孩震驚的暴力史和生存的殘酷是一個真實的故事，但是它也是倫敦很久一個秘密犯罪史。沒有其他女性的回憶錄會如同這本書。（sandy）
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