Foreign Parts

Zusatztext

<p>Cassie and Rona. Rona and Cassie.</p><p>Two women on a driving holiday in Northern France.</p><p>A caustic, coruscating and deeply funny account of morality, dysfunctional relationships and women abroad,<i>Foreign Parts</i>is that rare hybrid: a strikingly original novel about real life, told with accuracy, compassion and a truly saturnine delight.</p>

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Janice Galloway'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/Allan Lane Book of the Year. Her second novel,<i>Foreign Parts,</i>won the American Academy of Arts and Letters EM 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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