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Janey and Me : Growing Up With My Mother
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- GenresMemoir
336 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 2004
About the author
Virginia Ironside
37 books39 followersVirginia Ironside is best known as one of Britain's leading agony aunts. She started on Woman magazine before moving to The Sunday Mirror and Today newspapers. She now writes a weekly column for The Independant. She also appears regularly on radio and television on such programmes as Radio 4's 'Woman's Hour'. Her many books include self-help titles on subjects such as bereavement, as well as the children's spooky adventure series
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February 28, 2023
Well written memoir of another unhappy family!
September 18, 2011
This is a well written book - it feels like a story so you do get absorbed in what is going on. Too often these kinds of books can become stale and leave your mind wondering off to other things. At times it really does not paint Janey Ironside in a good light at all but it is honest, and for that I respect the author for being brave enough to admit that herself and her mother and her life was not perfect, but she doesn't just deliver the darker side, she embraces all that went into making the Ironsides.
March 8, 2014
You can understand your parent's weaknesses and still repeat them in your own novel way. Well written, she was a witness and participant in Mod London, but she was in too much pain to be nostalgic about its superficial glamour.
April 10, 2023
This book kept me intrigued all weekend. I was struck by how physically alike Virginia and Janey are …. Just like twins to be honest. As I worked my way through the book it seemed to me that they were also very alike in lots of other ways, although maybe Virginia can’t see that. I laughed at their descriptions of people and they probably couldn’t see it but they were basically a couple of snobs!
I found the relationship between Virginia and her father, Christopher really moving and decided early on that he was a lovely man and a great father. Virginia said later on that when he remarried and had 3 children with his new wife that she felt pushed out but she was an adult by then so I guess he felt he had others to consider. I am certain he still loved her though.
As for Janey, she was very much a cold fish towards Virginia and reminded me a lot of Heather Mills (McCartney) mother. They had a very strained relationship yet people and patients remembered her Mother as an absolute angel who supported and loved everyone she met but HM detested her and left home at 15.
Janey was not a cold fish to men though and loved having sex and being adored by hundreds of men, many of whom she worked alongside.
I am going to buy Virginia Ironside’s book “You’ll get over it.” about bereavement.
I found the relationship between Virginia and her father, Christopher really moving and decided early on that he was a lovely man and a great father. Virginia said later on that when he remarried and had 3 children with his new wife that she felt pushed out but she was an adult by then so I guess he felt he had others to consider. I am certain he still loved her though.
As for Janey, she was very much a cold fish towards Virginia and reminded me a lot of Heather Mills (McCartney) mother. They had a very strained relationship yet people and patients remembered her Mother as an absolute angel who supported and loved everyone she met but HM detested her and left home at 15.
Janey was not a cold fish to men though and loved having sex and being adored by hundreds of men, many of whom she worked alongside.
I am going to buy Virginia Ironside’s book “You’ll get over it.” about bereavement.
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May 5, 2009Another memoir of someone who had a totally different life than I did (do). I like memoirs/biographies if the story is good and this one is.
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