Nope, she sounds like a Stokie who moved a few miles away and now says "luk" instead of "l-oo-k". Or somebody who grew up/lives very near to stoke but not quite there
Dr Jessica Taylor #9 Don't be fooled by the sports car I got, I'm still grifter Jessie from the block
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Can I ask what stoke means? In NI it's an extremely derogatory name people use to insult others (calling them a woman) taken from the travelling family the Stokes. Is this the same in England?
She’s referring to Stoke-on-Trent where she comes from because of course it’s full of the likes of ‘Simpo’ and she is the only successful person to have ever hailed from there.
It's a small city in England with a quite unique accent. It sounds a little bit like a Liverpool accent but also somehow different. It is more of a northern English accent and is quite far from the "posh" British accent Americans often seem to think all Brits have.
Basically it's part of her grift/image - "I'm a common little working class chav from a Stoke-on-Trent council estate but I'm also the successful, dynamic boss babe you see before you! Doesn't that just blow your mind?!"
She mentions him in a roundabout way when she talks about meeting Jaimi and talking about how they were both miserable with their current male partners. There might have been more mention but I don't remember if there was.
It's basically a few stories from her adolescence interspersed with snippets of her life at university and her tribunal against them. At the end, there's a massive letter to her childhood self telling her how amazing she is that seems to go on for about 1/4 of the book. She mentions going to a "top university" too many times to count. Her childhood sounded rough - similar to many girls who grow up in poverty - but most of it is stories she's told before on Twitter with a few new ones about how her first kiss with a girl (the most beautiful and popular girl in school, no less) in front of a group of other girls at a sleepover was "bliss", and how she pulled a hot Turkish hotel worker girl who couldn't speak English while she was on holiday with her family aged 15.
We couldn't afford foreign holidays when I was 15. Think I'll outdo her with a misery memoir of my own