Foreign Parts

Cassie and Rona. Rona and Cassie.

Two women on a driving holiday in Northern France.

A caustic, coruscating and deeply funny account of morality, dysfunctional relationships and women abroad,Foreign Partsis that rare hybrid: a strikingly original novel about real life, told with accuracy, compassion and a truly saturnine delight.

Janice Galloway's first novel,The Trick is to Keep Breathing,now widely regarded as a Scottish contemporary classic, was published in 1990 and won the MIND/Allan Lane Book of the Year. Her second novel,Foreign Parts,won the American Academy of Arts and Letters EM Forster Award while her third,Clara, about the tempestuous life of nineteenth-century pianist Clara Wieck Schumann, won the Saltire Award in 2002. Collaborative texts include an opera with Sally Beamish and three cross-discipline works with Anne Bevan, the Orcadian sculptor. Her 'anti-memoir',This is not about me, was published by Granta in September 2008 to universal critical acclaim. She lives in Lanarkshire

Life on the road observed with a biting sensibility for the awkward and the joyous:a tale as comic as it is poignant.