by JaniceGalloway (Author)
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, a pregnant daughter for the mother who must never know, Derek's mouth ('good kissers don't grow on trees'), or ham sandwiches cut into hearts. There is the terrible love of the children, the love of men for women and women for men, the love of strangers for each other, the loves of the lost, the abandoned, and the better left alone. 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, moving again through the depths of silence, power and dependency, these are painstakingly crafted stories: engaging, causitc, funny and terrifyingly true.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
Published: 16 May 1996
ISBN 10: 0224040502
ISBN 13: 9780224040501
Book Overview: This book was chosen by the Scottish Book Marketing Group as one of the top 49 titles for the Scottish Book Fortnight 1996.