All Made Up

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The conflict is encapsulated in a passage in which 15-year-old Janice is enduring a grim family wedding, and her vindictive Aunt Kitty's needling. I guess what is set in early childhood is so profound that the opening out of the framework of the child person into adolescence and adult is just more of the same . Does All Made Up refer to primping and preening, or making up after a disagreement, or is it hinting at a sustained fiction? It's not one thing, ever-changing depending on context, but was it certainly can't be is dismissed or ignored. In the second volume of her memoirs, the prize-winning author Janice Galloway reveals how the awkward child introduced in This is Not About Me evolved through her teenage years, living with her stoical mother and domineering older sister.

Janice Galloway's memoir of adolescence in 1960s Ayrshire follows This Is Not About Me, her highly successful memoir of childhood in the same locale. Exotica such as Vesta curries and bolognese sauce arrive in 1970s Saltcoats, and the family eventually adds a fridge to its consumer electricals, while mother continues to dispense advice: "Self-sufficiency was the only survival tool you could count on. She can dissect a single statement by a teacher or parent to the point of exhaustion, before usually deciding, after agonising internal debate, to say nothing.By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. At 17, she has to have an abortion, at which point her mother decides she is old enough to warrant a bedroom of her own – up until then she had slept next to her mother.

Having watched Janice age 10 years over the course of two volumes and 600 pages, the ending of All Made Up seems oddly truncated. Instead, the elder sister leaves home: "She was gone one evening when I came back off the last train and the house felt different, flushed with healing ions.

Being Scotttish and knowing Ayrshire well, I enjoyed this book, light hearted at times and sad at other times. I've been fascinated by beauty culture and appearance this year mainly because my self confidence has plunged to ground zero.