Galloway, Janice

(British, 1956– )

Although Janice Galloway's work has a Scottish dimension, it is concerned with gender rather than nation. Her first novel, The Trick is to Keep Breathing (1989), charts the descent of Joy into mental illness after the death of her married lover. Galloway's second novel, Foreign Parts (1994), is about a trip taken to the First World War graveyards in France by two Scottish women. Both novels represent, with irony and black humour, the everyday and existential aspects of women's lives, and experiment with narrative form. Galloway has also published two collections of short stories: Blood (1992) and Where You Find It (1996), which explore aspects of contemporary women's lives.

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