The Trick Is to Keep Breathing

Name: The Trick Is to Keep Breathing
Author: Janice Galloway

by Janice Galloway

A woman's mental breakdown spirals through fragmented narrative and visual text experimentation

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Janice Galloway

Scottish novelist and short-story writer whose debut The Trick Is to Keep Breathing is a landmark of Scottish women's fiction. Her formally experimental prose explores female experience and identity. She is one of the most important voices in contemporary Scottish literature.

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