Where You Find It

Janice Galloway's first novel, "The Trick is to Keep Breathing", won the MIND/Allen Lane Book of the Year award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel and Scottish First Book awards. Her second, "Foreign Parts", won the 1994 McVitie's Prize. In the same year she was awarded the E.M. Forster Award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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.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.