This Is Not About Me
Author | : Janice Galloway |
Publisher | : Granta Books |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2010-04-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781847083067 |
ISBN-13 | : 1847083064 |
Rating | : 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: From her earliest years with a boozy, accident-prone father and a reluctantly pragmatic mother, Janice Galloway's 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.