Episode 4
An attempt to assert control sets adolescent Janice on a collision course with her long-suffering mother. Read by the author.
Author Janice Galloway reads from her new book - a compelling memoir of her adolescence in Scotland of the 1970s. A misguided attempt to gain control over her life will set the studious young girl on a collision course with her mother.
Read by the author and abridged by Sian Preece.
Produced by Eilidh McCreadie.
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