This Is Yesterday

‘This Is Yesterday is a song for the outsiders, a hymn to the suburban misfits. Here the tensions and oddness of lower-middle class family life are explored in poetic detail. Inhabited by weak men and strong women, it is shot through with rumination and echoes with regret, yet offers a voice of hope for those who boldly follow their own creative path from adolescence to middle age’ * Benjamin Myers, author of The Offing *Mind-blowingly masterful with words … This Is Yesterday jangled my insides around completely. Rose Ruane is truly something else * Jessica Fostekew, co-host of The Guilty Feminist *Stunningly written debut … The real subject of this enjoyably disturbing book is being a hormonal school-leaver in a dead-end town who feels all the real action is elsewhere – Wendy Holden * Daily Mail *This darkly funny book is very insightful about family dynamics and how small choices can leave us far from where we meant to be * Good Housekeeping *Ruane brings an earthy immediacy to bear on her exploration of the long-simmering tensions that warp the middle-class Lewis family … a tale told with passion and honesty – Hephzibah Anderson * Mail on Sunday *Sex and desire are complicated, and Ruane captures the how and why of that perfectly … Ruane’s Peach is someone you’ll want to shake and cuddle, sometimes simultaneously, for This is Yesterday conveys the messiness of real life - as well as its poignancy – Lee Randall * Books from Scotland *

Rose Ruane is an author and artist who lives in Glasgow with her ever-expanding collection of Twentieth Century kitsch.

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