Giving Up On Ordinary

Author: Dewar, Isla

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 8 January 1998 by Headline Publishing Group (Headline Review) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 320 pages
194 x 129 x 22 | 230g

When Megs became a cleaner, she didn't realise that if people looked at her a cleaner would be all they saw. Megs has as full a life as the people she does for, Mrs Terribly-Clean-Pearson or Ms Oh-Just-Keep-It-Above-The-Dysentery-Line McGhee. She's the mother of three children and still mourning the death of a son; she enjoys a constant sparring match with her mother; she drinks away her troubles with Lorraine, her friend since Primary One; and she sings the blues in a local club.

Megs has been getting by. But somehow that's not enough any more. It's time Megs gave up on being ordinary...