Culture: Author with Distinctive View Recalls North Days ; Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder, but That Was No Consolation to Constance Briscoe. David Whetstone Meets the Woman Who Came to Newcastle Thinking She Was Ugly.

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CONSTANCE BRISCOE is a London barrister and part-time judge, one of few black British women to hold that position.

But what also sets her apart is her bestselling autobiography, Ugly, which came out in January 2006, telling of a childhood of misery and abuse.

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Culture: Author with Distinctive View Recalls North Days ; Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder, but That Was No Consolation to Constance Briscoe. David Whetstone Meets the Woman Who Came to Newcastle Thinking She Was Ugly.

This heartrending tale, relating how she suffered at the hands of her mother and stepfather, spent six months on the bestseller lists, selling more than 500,000 copies.

As well as physical pain, Constance recalled her mother's oft- repeated assertion that she was ugly.

Taking home her school photos, h...

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