In the second volume of her memoirs, the 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.