The Trick Is To Keep Breathing

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From the corner of a darkened room Joy Stone watches herself. As memories of the deaths of her lover and mother surface unbidden, life for Joy narrows to negotiating each day, each encounter, each second; to finding the trick to keep living. Told with shattering clarity and wry wit, this is a Scottish classic fit for our time.

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<b>Janice Galloway</b>'s first novel,<i>The Trick is to Keep Breathing,</i>now widely regarded as a Scottish contemporary classic, was published in 1990 and won the MIND/Allen Lane Book of the Year. Her second novel,<i>Foreign Parts,</i>won the American Academy of Arts and Letters E. M. Forster Award while her third,<i>Clara</i>, 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',<i>This Is Not About Me</i>, was published by Granta in September 2008 to universal critical acclaim. She lives in Lanarkshire.

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