Forster Award in 1994 and the Mind/Allen Lane Book Award in 1990, is a devastating portrait of what happens to someone when their grief cannot be publicly acknowledged.Īs the “other woman”, Joy must mourn in private and keep her thoughts - and her tears - to herself, but such a burden eats away at both her psychological and physical health. This claustrophobic story, which won the American Academy of the Arts E.M. Written in a series of fragments, often sharp, melancholy or bleakly funny, the book reflects the slow inward collapse of Joy Stone’s world as she struggles to make sense of all around her. Janice Galloway’s The Trick is to Keep Breathing is a profoundly disturbing story about one woman’s mental breakdown following the death of her lover. Fiction – paperback Vintage 236 pages 1999.
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