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Where You Find It

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099453116

  • Length: 240  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 14mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 171g

  • RRP: £9.99

Where You Find It

In her latest collection of stories, Janice Galloway turns her unflinching gaze on relationships: the struggle to love against the odds, the overpowering yearning to communicate, and the extraordinary epiphanies where the World falls away leaving only the lovers. Love is, of course, where you find it, and it is here in an evening walk across a London bridge, a chip-shop pizza, Derek's mouth, or ham sandwiches cut into hearts. A brilliant observer of human frailty and tenderness, Janice Galloway examines the moments where lives split like a stone, where people are healed or broken by a word or the touch of a hand. Savagely accurate, vivid and unsentimental, these are painstakingly crafted stories: engaging, caustic, funny and terrifyingly true.

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099453116

  • Length: 240  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 14mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 171g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • Galloway's subject is love in all its quirky triumphs and sneaky defeats. Where You Find It confirms the originality and skill which wins her awards... Galloway has the all-important gift of knowing when her stories end, and lethally accurate powers of observation.

    Judy Cooke, Daily Telegraph

  • The writing can be felt on your pulses. Galloway is a literary endoscopist. She gets beneath the surface of life and exposes the nerves.

    Georgina Brown, Independent

  • She is a quite brilliant observer of the way relationships suddenly turn, of how a look, a gesture, a word can heal or hurt

    Anthony Quinn, Harpers & Queen

  • Fuses a nerve- exposing honesty with deep compassion

    Gavin Wallace, Scotsman

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About the Author

Janice Galloway

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/Allen Lane Book of the Year. Her second novel, Foreign Parts, won the American Academy of Arts and Letters E. M. 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.

Janice Galloway

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