In the second volume of her memoirs, prize-winning author Janice
Galloway reveals how the child introduced in This is Not About Me
evolved through her teenage years. When she started secondary school,
Galloway was still sharing a bed with her mother and was more excited by
Latin and school orchestra than by boys. But as she struggled with the
physical and emotional changes of adolescence, almost everything she
thought she knew began to change. Combining visceral descriptions of
puberty, sex and school-room politics with the story of a family's
secrets, Galloway casts her gaze on the morals and ambitions of one
small town, in writing that is personal, defiant and eloquent.
Janice Galloway is the author of five critically celebrated works of
fiction and two memoirs. Her first novel, The Trick is to Keep
Breathing, is now widely regarded as a Scottish contemporary classic,
with a stage adaptation performed in Glasgow, Toronto and London; while
her second book, Blood, was a New York Times Notable Book of the
Year. In August 2012 All Made Up, the sequel to This is Not About
Me, won Scottish Book of the Year award at Edinburgh Festival.
