When you asks what I'm doin here an I says, 'fuckin rubbish', I ain't bein rude, nor disrespectful. The truth is, that's just how it began... with a pile of stinkin rubbish dumped in a skip... an if it hadn't bin for that rubbish, I wouldn't be where I am now, though I can't say I might not of landed up here some time through some other set of circumstances, if you gets what I mean. After all, that's life, en it?
Gloria Eden, known as 'Glory', is a semi-literate, middle-aged woman living on the edge - a bag-lady. Her world is that of urban dereliction and social vermin - drop-outs, misfits, the homeless. Unexpectedly she comes to the rescue of a young boy who has run away from home, Darren, and soon they are both on the run from the powers-that-be.
In her debut novel, Adrienne Silcock enters the mind of this enterprising anarchic survivor and gives her a voice forged from vernacular speech at its most vigorous. The six short stories that complete the volume also explore loners and social outsiders.
Vermin costs £6.99 and was published in July 2000.
ISBN: 978-1-873226-41-4
Adrienne Silcock grew up in the Home Counties, studied Sociology at Liverpool University and subsequently worked in France and England. She now lives in North Yorkshire, where she has been involved in teaching Adult Basic Education for some years. In 1998 she won first prize in The Old Meeting House play-writing competition.
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