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 *
