Foreign Parts

Janice Galloway author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:23rd Feb '95

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

Foreign Parts cover

Life on the road observed with a biting sensibility for the awkward and the joyous:a tale as comic as it is poignant.

Cassie and Rona.

Two women on a driving holiday in Northern France.

A caustic, coruscating and deeply funny account of morality, dysfunctional relationships and women abroad, Foreign Parts is that rare hybrid: a strikingly original novel about real life, told with accuracy, compassion and a truly saturnine delight.

Cassie and Rona. Rona and Cassie.

Two women on a driving holiday in Northern France.

A caustic, coruscating and deeply funny account of morality, dysfunctional relationships and women abroad, Foreign Parts is that rare hybrid: a strikingly original novel about real life, told with accuracy, compassion and a truly saturnine delight.

The book reassures that no matter how many times you've done something or been somewhere, the humiliations remain as burning, the pleasure as sharp as ever * Independent *
A funny, original, stinging-as-a-nettle, soothing-as-a-dockleaf read * Observer *
A carefully observed, caustic portrait of two opposites - one prickly, one plodding - and their troublesome but enduring friendship * New York Times *
A pleasure from start to finish * Guardian *
Every detail...is described with the accuracy of an X-ray and the urgency of poetry -- Penelope Mortimer * Daily Telegraph *

  • Winner of McVities Prize for Scottish Writer of the Year 1994

ISBN: 9780099453017

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 17mm

Weight: 192g

272 pages