Every morning Cora "painted on eyebrows like gull-wings" before going out to work as a secretary, but when at home, she proves capable of setting fire to Janice's hair in a fit of pique. This book also holds space for complicating factors, especially the ways that beauty standards differ across race, class, and culture. Launching on January 29th, The Monday Club is a brand new stand up comedy show featuring a professional headliner and up and comers from the UK comedy circuit!

And, arching over the whole construct, the figure of intemperate Cora, her anger forever simmering, her sense of injustice and her own infallibility intact.Set in a family where love and affection are both rationed and deflected, the story illustrates the author's growing intellectual, social and sexual awareness. Galloway's first volume of memoir, This Is Not About Me, was published in 2008 and contained innumerable moments of cruelty. She has a fondness for taking the platitudes and clichés of family matriarchs – "too clever by half" or "rotten to the bone" – and peppering the text with them.

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Increasingly, people of all genders are wrestling with what it means to be a woman living in a patriarchy, and part of that is how looking like a woman—whatever that means—affects people’s real lives. Reading this book makes me feel seen, it puts into words the confusing, intangible, vexing internal struggle that many women I know face when it comes to makeup. Full of intriguing anecdotes and trenchant commentary on the relationship between conventional beauty standards and misogyny, classism, and racism, this is an invigorating examination of the ‘rules and assumptions that govern appearance. For Janice in All Made Up, it is from Cora, the mercurial sister who, at 20, left a child and husband in Glasgow to move back in with her mother and five-year-old Janice in Saltcoats.

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It sort of read like "we use makeup for a bunch of reasons, some of which have to do with access to greater social standing" and like. To the child and adolescent Janice, abrupt violence is just another facet of her existence, and is hardly given more attention than night-time reveries over the fate of Yuri Gagarin, "his face smeared by console lights", the thrill of illicitly borrowing the goriest tomes from the library, "Spartacus, Caligula and Vlad the Impaler", and the sudden importance of pop culture awareness and effortless prettiness: "My blazer sprouted Bowie badges .