Foreign Parts by Janice Galloway
Cassie and Rona. Rona and Cassie. Two women on a driving holiday in Northern France; colleagues on the cusp of forty, trying to get on. Cassie Burns, the narrator, is testy and cynical in the face of her patient, parochial friend - the Virgin of her Dante - who is driving her not only up the wall and into Normandy but also towards what can only be called ' an understanding' - of exactly how much of what surround her is not 'her place'. This is a novel of Diocalm and travel kettles, boiled sweets and sandwiches, pasties and postcards; a threnody for youth and men intercut with photographs and memories from Cassie's ghastly sexual past, and a sheaf of letters from Rona's grandfather written in the trenches of the Somme. A caustic, coruscating and deeply funny account of mortality, dysfunctional relationships and women abroad. FOREIGN PARTS is that rare hybrid; a striking original novel about real life, told with accuracy, compassion and a truly saturnine delight.
Janice Galloway was born in Ayrshire. Her first novel, The Trick is to Keep Breathing, was published in 1990 and won the MIND/Allen Lane Book of the Year Award and a Scottish Arts Council Award, and was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel and Scottish First Book. Blood, a collection of stories, was published in 1992. A story from that collection won the Cosmopolitan/Perier Short Story Award.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780224039802 |
| ISBN 10 | 0224039806 |
| Title | Foreign Parts |
| Author | Janice Galloway |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 1994-04-21 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Prizes | Winner of McVities Prize for Scottish Writer of the Year 1994 |
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