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All about my mother

Janice Galloway meant her new book to be about other people's families. But her own got in the way By Paul Dalgarno

A PAIR of too-heavy drawers hangs from a garden washing line in Saltcoats. Janet Galloway, mother of Janice, is propped upright in a foldaway chair, her bare arms extended as if she is expecting sun. She is wearing earrings and a necklace that might be pearl. A show of knees.