An Evening With Janice Galloway

Blackwell Bookshop
South Bridge, Edinburgh
6.15pm
Free

Blackwell is pleased to present an evening with Janice Galloway, the bestselling and very popular Scottish author. From her earliest years with a boozy, accident-prone father and a reluctantly pragmatic mother Janice 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 not about me 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.
A voice that has shared with us – the readers a variety of literary triumphs from short stories to radio serials, opera to art installations, plays to novels.

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  This Is Not About Me - Janice Galloway - Paperback
  One of Scotland's greatest contemporary writers turns her focus, in luminous prose, to her Ayrshire childhood in the 1950s and 1960s.