Falling Up

by Diana Scott

Diana can't understand what's wrong... Avoiding the office, she is now pending most of her day hiding out at the local pub with her best mate pat, playing pool and snorting coke. Diana's not supposed to be doing this . She's a senior account manager at a big advertising agency - attractive, smart and gutsy. But there's something constantly eating at her, something she can't seem to handle. FALLING UP is a true story - a fast paced and gritty account of Diana's years spent running from the past. Events both sad and funny unfold quickly, and despite finding friends, love and wild adventure along the way she's somehow never happy for long. Diana is in the pain, she knows why, but thinks she can beat it. by just imagining nothing that bad ever really happened. Hitting rock-bottom, she faces reality and begins to discover what living really means. Diana's story is a brave and revealing account of the effects of childhood sexual abuse. This is an uplifting story that reminds us all of the potential to make good the past.

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First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Diana Scott was born in Massachusetts in 1947, and spent her childhood and adolescence in London where she was introduced to 'pacifism, democracy, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Shakespeare, opera, literature and academic achievement'. In 1968 she took a Bachelor of Arts degree in Drama and Theatre Arts and Greek at Birmingham University. She then began to teach English as a second language and to write poetry, which has since been widely published in magazines and anthologies. In the early seventies she became involved in the women's movement, and joined a women's poetry performance group, Prodigal Daughters, giving readings and combining poetry with dance, music and drama. In 1977 she and her co-author, Mary Coghill, published 'If Women Want to Speak, What Language do They Use?'
In recent years she has 'written a lot of poetry, read a lot of poetry books, started to make a lot of jokes, even some money, and run a thousand miles'.
Diana now lives in Leeds where she works as a poet, writer, teacher and mother.