Background
She is the second daughter of James Galloway and Janet Clark McBride. Her parents separated when she was four and her father died when she was six.
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BY Galloway, Janice ( Author ) { All Made Up - IPS By Galloway, Janice ( Author ) Oct - 05- 2012 ( Paperback ) }
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Clara: A Novel
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Foreign Parts (British Literature) by Janice Galloway (1995-09-01)
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This Is Not About Me
( When her mother left her alcoholic father and set up ho...)
When her mother left her alcoholic father and set up home in a tiny attic room above a doctor’s surgery, Janice Galloway quickly learned how to keep quiet and stay out of the way. Her mother hadn’t expected or wanted another child and Galloway wasn’t allowed to forget that she was a burden. Her much older sister Cora, with her steady stream of boyfriends, her showy fashions, and erratic temperament, never failed to remind her of her insignificance. Galloway’s Scottish childhood is defined by the intimate details of her environment, where every family member looms close. With startling precision she remembers scenes of domestic life: her mother’s weekly round of washing, the sodden tweed dripping on the line; Cora putting on layers of make up for the Ayrshire night life; learning to writeand control the often rebellious letters; the living quality of her mother’s mangy old fur coat. In these cramped conditions, ignored by her elders, Galloway is a silent observer, carefully and keenly watching the people around her. As her rage grows, she begins to think for herself. Slowly, unexpectedly, she finds her voice. Out of the silent child emerges the girl who will be a writer.
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Where You Find It : Stories
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From the Scottish author of Foreign Parts comes a collection of short stories that gazes unflinchingly at the struggle to love against the odds.
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Trick Is to Keep Breathing (Scottish Literature) by Janice Galloway (2015-04-14)
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Trick Is to Keep Breathing (Scottish Literature)
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All Made Up
( In the second volume of her memoirs, the prize-winning ...)
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.
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Janice Galloway
Edit ProfileEducation
She studied Music and English at Glasgow University, then worked as a school teacher and waitress for ten years before turning to writing.
Career
Her sister Nora, sixteen years older, died in 2000 from smoking-related illness. Janice Galloway"s secondary education was at Ardrossan Academy, which is described in the memoire All Made Up. She was the first Scottish Arts Council writer in residence to four prisons (HMPs Cornton Vale, Dungavel, Barlinnie and Polmont YOI) and was the Times Literary Supplement Research Fellow to the British Library in 1999.
Her awards include: MIND/Allan Lane Award (for The Trick is to Keep Breathing), the McVitie"s Prize (for Foreign Parts), the East.M. Forster Award (presented by the American Academy of Arts and Letters), the Creative Scotland Award, Saltire Book of the Year (for Clara) and the SMIT non-fiction Book of the Year for This is not about Maine and Scottish Best Book of the Year 2012 for All Made Up.
She has written and presented three radio series for British Broadcasting Corporation Scotland (Life as a Manitoba, Imagined Lives and Chopin"s Scottish Swansong) and works extensively with musicians and visual artists including Sally Beamish, Anne Bevan, Michael Wolchover, Norman McBeath, Alasdair Nicolson and James McNaught. Her books Clara and This is Not About Maine were recorded for the RNIB Talking Books service by the author in 2004 and 2009 respectively.This is Not about Maine and All Made Up are available to buy on Audible.
In December 2008 she was a guest on Private Passions, the biographical music discussion programme on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 3. and regularly discusses music, writing and The Scottish Question at public appearances. Galloway wrote the glosses on Bronte"s Shirley and Eliot"s Felix Holt and Middlemarch in The Book of Prefaces, edited by Alasdair Gray.
Works
book
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This Is Not About Me
( When her mother left her alcoholic father and set up ho...)
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All Made Up
( In the second volume of her memoirs, the prize-winning ...)
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Where You Find It : Stories
(From the Scottish author of Foreign Parts comes a collect...)
- BY Galloway, Janice ( Author ) { All Made Up - IPS By Galloway, Janice ( Author ) Oct - 05- 2012 ( Paperback ) }
- This is Not About Me - SIGNED first edition
- Clara: A Novel
- Foreign Parts (British Literature) by Janice Galloway (1995-09-01)
- Trick Is to Keep Breathing (Scottish Literature) by Janice Galloway (2015-04-14)
- Trick Is to Keep Breathing (Scottish Literature)
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This Is Not About Me
