A tour de force of artistic licence projecting the past through the lens of the artist's imagination .

A perceptive approach to what is actually a very intricate topic masquerading behind a façade of frivolity.Her novel The Trick is to Keep Breathing was winner of the MIND Book of the Year Award; Foreign Parts was winner of the McVitie's Prize, and Clara was winner of the E. While the suffering in This is Not About Me and this second instalment, All Made Up, is vividly, unsparingly described, it is not the focus or drive of the books.

Unfortunately the misreadings have not been edited out so, of course, the spell is broken each time. From starting high school to discovering a love for music and Latin, all while avoiding her rocket of a sister, Janice Galloway doesn't skip a beat. Cora is the one who, uncaring of opinion, rescues the situation by dismissing Kitty and telling her mother: "Let's you and me leave the old married ladies and trip the light fantastic. Janice Galloway's previous volume of autobiography, This is Not About Me, an account of her childhood in small-town Scotland, was described in The Times as "a literary, not a misery, memoir".

People of colour were not expected to wear makeup and for a long time makeup companies did not make shades suitable for them. 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 . The author rightfully assesses the ways in which makeup is a tool for fitting in as much as it is a tool for protest and standing out. The desire for knowledge, education, honesty and affection emerge and re-emerge despite the weight of negative expectations and pressures. Need the help of an experienced Hair and Makeup artist with an eye for detail, expert skills and professional approach?