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All Made Up
Janice Galloway
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Description for All Made Up
Paperback. One of our greatest contemporary authors writes about sex, school and adolescence in 1970s small-town Scotland. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 20. Weight in Grams: 226.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Granta Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847083272
SKU
V9781847083272
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-86
About Janice Galloway
Janice Galloway's previous books include the critically acclaimed memoir This Is Not About Me (winner of the 2009 Scottish Book of the Year for non-fiction) and novels The Trick is to Keep Breathing, (winner of the 1990 MIND Book of the Year Award), Foreign Parts (1994 McVitie's Prize and American Academy of Authors EM Forster Award) and Clara which won the 2004 Saltire Book of the Year Award. She has also written two collections of short stories.
Reviews for All Made Up
All Made Up is an excellent sequel; its verbal playfulness, folksiness and wry, hard-won humour are an antidote to the neurosis and cynicism that can often characterise autobiographical writing by the authors of fiction
Victoria Beale
Independent on Sunday
Warm, vivid, true
Erica Wagner
The Times
Galloway remains a brilliant writer, capturing mood and character, time and place, with seeming effortlessness
Ian Rankin
Guardian
A fierce but forgiving tragi-comedy of manners, morality and memory recovered
Iain Finlayson
The Times
Galloway is a mesmerising writer
Catherine Deveney
Scotland on Sunday
Janice Galloway is as good as they come
Jane Shilling
Daily Telegraph
Galloway conjures up the atmosphere [of Saltcoats] with a loving hatred ... Her style is vivid and fluent
Adam Mars-Jones
Observer
A tour de force of artistic licence projecting the past through the lens of the artist's imagination ... The book is a testament to Galloway's talent ... The book is a wonderful curiosity shop of the mysteries of womanhood
Tom Adair
Scotsman
Galloway's prose crackles as fiercely as her mother's brushed-nylon sheets... a writer able to conjure up the blistering emotional life of an ever-watchful child
Emma Hagestadt
Radar
Superb
Lesley McDowell
Sunday Herald
A brilliant writer, capturing mood and character, time and place, with seeming effortlessness
Ian Rankin
Guardian
Janice Galloway is the queen of whatever she chooses to write . . . one of Scotland's best writers
Damien Barr
Herald
Victoria Beale
Independent on Sunday
Warm, vivid, true
Erica Wagner
The Times
Galloway remains a brilliant writer, capturing mood and character, time and place, with seeming effortlessness
Ian Rankin
Guardian
A fierce but forgiving tragi-comedy of manners, morality and memory recovered
Iain Finlayson
The Times
Galloway is a mesmerising writer
Catherine Deveney
Scotland on Sunday
Janice Galloway is as good as they come
Jane Shilling
Daily Telegraph
Galloway conjures up the atmosphere [of Saltcoats] with a loving hatred ... Her style is vivid and fluent
Adam Mars-Jones
Observer
A tour de force of artistic licence projecting the past through the lens of the artist's imagination ... The book is a testament to Galloway's talent ... The book is a wonderful curiosity shop of the mysteries of womanhood
Tom Adair
Scotsman
Galloway's prose crackles as fiercely as her mother's brushed-nylon sheets... a writer able to conjure up the blistering emotional life of an ever-watchful child
Emma Hagestadt
Radar
Superb
Lesley McDowell
Sunday Herald
A brilliant writer, capturing mood and character, time and place, with seeming effortlessness
Ian Rankin
Guardian
Janice Galloway is the queen of whatever she chooses to write . . . one of Scotland's best writers
Damien Barr
Herald