Blood

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<p>'BLOOD is a virtuoso work: the writing sinewy and beautiful. . . the integrity of vision coruscating; the whole driven by the author's restless experimentation with form. And at least two stories, 'Blood' itself and 'Fearless', will certainly end up in anthologies: not Best Scottish Writers, or Best Women Writers, but quite simply, Best' New Statesman and Society.</p><p>'I remember reading a story by Janice Galloway for the first time; its urgency of voice, that certainty of expression, I wondered why I hadn't heard of her before; then discovered that she was altogether new to writing. It was some debut. She really is a fine writer' James Kelman</p><p>'<i>Blood</i>is a virtuoso work: the writing sinewy and beautiful...the integrity of vision coruscating; the whole driven by the author's restless experimentation with form. And at least two stories, 'Blood' itself and 'Fearless', will certainly end up in anthologies: not Best Scottish Writers, or Best Women Writers, but, quite simply,<i>best</i>'<i>New Statesman</i></p><p>'A salutary collection...A marvellous revelation. A writer of passion and virtuosity shines through'<i>Scotland on Sunday</i></p><p>'Genuinely unnerving...she is a fierce, troubling new writer'<i>Observer</i></p><p>'Galloway flecks her hard-edged realism with impressionist grace-notes, a potent mixture that confirms her...as one of Scotland's best young writers'<i>Sunday Telegraph</i></p><p>'There is ample proof in<i>Blood</i>of Galloway's unassailable talent. Marvellously funny and beautifully paced'<i>Glasgow Herald</i></p>

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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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