Book description
Cassie and Rona. Rona and Cassie.
Two women on a driving holiday in Northern France.
A caustic, coruscating and deeply funny account of morality,
dysfunctional relationships and women abroad, Foreign Parts is
that rare hybrid: a strikingly original novel about real life, told
with accuracy, compassion and a truly saturnine delight.
Janice Galloway's first novel,
The Trick is to Keep Breathing,
now widely regarded as a Scottish contemporary classic, was published
in 1990 and won the MIND/Allan Lane Book of the Year. Her second novel,
Foreign Parts,
won the American Academy of Arts and Letters EM Forster Award while her
third,
Clara
, about the tempestuous life of nineteenth-century pianist Clara Wieck
Schumann, won the Saltire Award in 2002. Collaborative texts include an
opera with Sally Beamish and three cross-discipline works with Anne
Bevan, the Orcadian sculptor. Her 'anti-memoir',
This is not about me
, was published by Granta in September 2008 to universal critical
acclaim. She lives in Lanarkshire
