The Trick Is To Keep Breathing

Galloway invites us into the mind of a woman on the edge, in a novel which ‘resembles Tristram Shandy as rewritten by Sylvia Plath’ (New York Times)

From the corner of a darkened room Joy Stone watches herself. As memories of the deaths of her lover and mother surface unbidden, life for Joy narrows - to negotiating each day, each encounter, each second; to finding the trick to keep living. Told with shattering clarity and wry wit, this is a Scottish classic fit for our time.