Janice Galloway calls for more fiction about parenting, less about sex

‘There’s a lot about sex in literature,’ novelist tells Edinburgh international book festival. ‘There’s precious little about rearing children’

Literature should be more about parenting and less about sex, award-winning writer Janice Galloway has said.

Speaking at the Edinburgh international book festival, Galloway cited David Lodge’s statement that: “Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.” Her goal, she told a sold out audience, was to put this right.

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