Gone Shopping
Voted one of The Guardian's top 10 best crime books of all time and one of the best true crime books ever written according to Stylist
Shirley Pitts, the eldest of six children was born upside down on 24 November 1934. Her 'career' began by thieving bread off doorsteps and coal from coal carts. Her father's bungled attempts at black marketeering and her dipsomaniac mother's inadequacies made Shirley resolve not only to be a first-class thief but also the best mother her six children could wish for.
Before she died Shirley told her story to Lorraine - the story of a generous, brave and beautiful woman with a huge sense of fun and a love of life.
353 pages, 4 editions
English edition · First published 1996 by Bloomsbury Reader · ISBN 9781448213535
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Editions
4 editions
English
- Gone Shopping · Bloomsbury Reader · 2013 · ISBN 9781448213535 This page
- Gone Shopping · Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio · 2016 · ISBN 9781522642312
- Gone Shopping: The Story of Shirley Pitts - Queen of Thieves · Bloomsbury Reader · 2012 · ISBN 9781448209712
- Gone Shopping: The Story of Shirley Pitts - Queen of Thieves · Signet · 1996 · ISBN 9780451182586
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