Public success did not, however, insure her against personal reversals. Holiday began using heroin in the early 1940s, which led to public humiliation and a spell in jail in 1947, followed by a ban from performing in any New York nightclubs. Private torments included relationships with men who exploited and abused her, or who capitalised on her terror of being alone; bouts with liquor and drugs, which rendered her notoriously unreliable for club dates; and a feeling of underappreciation in the...