Dancing With Devils is the extraordinary memoir of Janette Gavagan, tracing two generations of women — mother Maria and daughter Juliette — whose lives were shaped by hardship, trauma, betrayal, and an unbreakable determination to survive, told with unflinching honesty and deep love. Maria was born into poverty in wartime, enduring abuse, assault, and a lifetime of physical and mental illness that shadowed everything she built. Yet she also found fierce love, raised a family, and achieved the life she had once only dreamed of as a child pushing prams through affluent streets. Juliette, shaped by both her mother's strength and her wounds, rose to remarkable professional success — only to face misogyny, betrayal, and collapse of her own. Through it all, family remained the unshakeable centre of both their lives. This is a story of two women linked by blood, shaped by parallel struggles, and held together by love — proof that even those who dance with devils can find themselves surrounded by angels.