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This Is Not About Me (2008)

by Janice Galloway(Favorite Author)

4.04 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1847080618 (ISBN13: 9781847080615)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Granta UK

review 1: 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.
review 2: Exactly what I hoped for and came to expect from Galloway. Her novels feel highly autobiographical, but it's nice to read the real background of t... morehe author behind them. I like the fact that this covers only a limited period of her childhood - it gains a lot from having an intimate focus as opposed to a broad overview. A relatively small cast too - but allowing us to really get to know everyone. As ever with this kind of memoir I'm left wondering how she remembered so much, and how much if not she guessed at / retrospectively recreated. less

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