This Is Not About Me

Galloway, Janice

£9.99

‘My mother thought I was the menopause’ – one of Britain’s greatest contemporary novelists turns her focus, in luminous, powerful prose, to her eccentric childhood in the 1950s and ’60s.

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Publish Date: 04/05/2009
ISBN: 9781847080998 Category: Tag:

Description

From her earliest years with a boozy, accident-prone father and a reluctantly pragmatic mother, Janice Galloway grew up as a watcher – careful and vigilant. Then her parents’ marriage broke up and mother and daughter moved to an attic above a doctor”s surgery. When her big sister Cora returned home, with her steady stream of boyfriends, snappy dress sense and matching temper, evasion became a way of life. This is a funny and telling book about the routine dependencies and confusions, hopes and triumphs of childhood; it is also a book about emergence, as, slowly, the beginnings of unsuspected rage pushed the silent girl towards her voice.

Additional information

Weight 256 g
Dimensions 198 × 129 × 24 mm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

339

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

823.914 (edition:22)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K