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'The Peanut Factory' by Deborah Price

£9.95

Deborah Price's debut memoir, The Peanut Factory, is about living in squats in South London in the late 70s during the emerging counterculture scene.

Squat life was sex, drugs and punk rock but it wasn’t all fun and games. The Peanut Factory shows Deborah navigating a male-dominated scene, moving every few months and living with drug dealers, sex workers, people on the run and working-class kids like her. 

Despite the chaos, the squatters were a family. They were kids creating their own rules. Making art. Living life on the fly. The Peanut Factory is an ode to the youthful rebellion of the 1970s and to London itself.

Deborah Price's debut memoir, The Peanut Factory, is about living in squats in South London in the late 70s during the emerging counterculture scene.

Squat life was sex, drugs and punk rock but it wasn’t all fun and games. The Peanut Factory shows Deborah navigating a male-dominated scene, moving every few months and living with drug dealers, sex workers, people on the run and working-class kids like her. 

Despite the chaos, the squatters were a family. They were kids creating their own rules. Making art. Living life on the fly. The Peanut Factory is an ode to the youthful rebellion of the 1970s and to London itself.

About the Author, Deborah Price

Born and bred in South London, Deborah moved to Brighton and Hove in 1986 where she lives with her wife. Since the age of fifteen, she has worked as a barmaid, cleaner, zookeeper, adventure play leader, youth worker, primary teacher, childcare and Ofsted inspector, trainer, and senior lecturer in education. She holds a Arts BA and MA in Film Studies from the Open University, where she also taught children’s literature. She has six non-fiction works published by Routledge and Jessica Kingsley focusing on equalities, LGBT issues, leadership, and grief and loss in children’s lives. She also has a memoir ‘The Peanut Factory’ published by Arkbound that tells the story of her years squatting in the 70s and 80s – a punk memoir. ‘Dirty Sweet’ is her first novel.