Janice Galloway

A funny and telling book about the dependencies, confusions and hopes and triumphs of childhood.

This is Not about Me

James Haliburton

A compelling memoirof Janice Galloway's pre-teenage years; honest and heart-breaking, it captures the confusing behaviour and expectations of adults - in particular her depressed mother and seemingly psychotic elder sister Cora. Anyone growing up in Scotland in the 60s or 70s will be only too familiar with the everyday cruelties of school and that particular Calvinist method of child-rearing, not to mention the Scottish diet of sweeties and chips for all occasions. Somehow Galloway's love of words and music even at that early age provide the optimistic counterpoint to the air of bleakness and hopelessness.

This is Not about Me

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