Ducking and Diving: The Life and Times Of An Essex Bad Girl

Tracy Mackness is an Essex bad girl turned good.

Now an award-winning and dynamic business woman, Tracy has come to success and happiness the long way round, via dropping out at 13, serious partying, drugs, gypsies, police fit-ups, shocking domestic violence, suicide attempts, and the inside of some of Britain’s toughest prisons.

This is Tracy’s story - the story of how a life can spiral out of control.

It is also the story of how a bond with a mother pig grieving for her babies on a prison farm inspired Tracy to turn her life around. Armed with a raw intelligence, charm, and an iron will to succeed, Tracy devoted the remainder of her sentence to learning everything there was to know about pig farming. With her market trader’s patter and striking Giggly Pig brand, Tracy has become a fixture at London’s top farmer’s markets. She now employs 20 people in a business that turns over more than £500,000 a year.

Book Author

Deborah Crewe grew up in Colchester, Essex. She studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at University College, Oxford, and international relations at Harvard. She has an MBA from London Business School. Deborah was until recently a senior civil servant, providing policy advice to Ministers in the Cabinet Office, the Home Office and the Ministry of Justice. She is therefore highly experienced in writing in official-ese, politician-ese and business-speak, though she is looking to expand her range of styles. Deborah lives in London with her husband and three young daughters.
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