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"spiky, bleak stories ... moving and poignant. Sometimes you have to read them twice" --The Evening Standard
'Galloway can evoke a life, a relationship, just about the whole human condition, within ten brilliantly written pages' --Daily Mail
`Affectingly raw and full of surprises' --Sunday Telegraph
"a testament to the sharp eye and shrewd brain of Janice Galloway, one of Scotland's finest writers --The Herald
'Galloway can evoke a life, a relationship, just about the whole human condition, within ten brilliantly written pages' --Daily Mail
`Affectingly raw and full of surprises' --Sunday Telegraph
"a testament to the sharp eye and shrewd brain of Janice Galloway, one of Scotland's finest writers --The Herald
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Comprising stories from her debut collection, Blood, and the critically acclaimed Where You Find It - this collection presents some of the best known and most loved works by one of Scotland's 'most gifted and original writers' (Times Literary Supplement).
Each sharply observed, savagely accurate and brilliantly realised - the stories offer revelatory glimpses into everyday lives - from an unwelcome act of kindness at a bus stop, an evening walk across a London bridge, a welcome but uncomfortable summer break to a brutal lesson in trust.
Here also are unflinching portrayals of 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.
These are painstakingly crafted stories: engaging, funny and terrifyingly true, from a master of the form.
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Already a long time fan of Ms Galloway, I was still astonished at the range of her writing techniques, her 'voice' clearly identifiable in each. I much enjoy her rendering of her local dialect, adding as it does both colour and authenticity to the pieces in question. 'Blood' the first story in the collection, with its insight into the sort of anxieties lurking in the female mind, I found particularly moving. Here, as throughout the collection, she gains valuable verisimilitude by her highly attuned capture of the everyday.
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Janice Galloway came to my attention via her wonderful auti-biography "This isn't about me". This book is a varied collection of short stories which tend to make you think quite a lot. However I think she harbours a dark side in herself somewhere if judged by the content of this book. That isn't a criticism, just a personal observation.
Well worth reading.
Well worth reading.
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