Trick Is to Keep Breathing (Scottish Literature)

About this book

Janice Galloways inventive first novel is about the breakdown of a 27-year-old drama teacher named Joy Stone. The problems of everyday living accumulate and begin to torture Joy who blames her problems not on her work or on the accidental drowning of her illicit lover but on herself. While painful and deeply serious this is a novel of great warmth and energy: its the wit and irony found in moments of despair that prove to be Joys salvation. First published by Polygon in 1989 and Dalkey Archive Press in 1994 now available again.