Where You Find It

Janice Galloway was born in Ayrshire. Her first novel, The Trick is to Keep Breathing, was published in 1990 and won the MIND/Allen Lane Book of the Year and was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel and Scottish First Book. The stage version has been performed at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow, the Harbourfront Festival, Toronto, and the Royal Court in London. her second book, Blood, a collection of stories, was published in 1992. A story from that collection won the Cosmopolitan/Perrier Short Story Award. Her second novel, Foreign Parts, won the 1994 McVitie's Prize. In 1994 she also won the E.M. Forster Award, presented by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Glasgow.

"Galloway's subject is love in all its quirky triumphs and sneaky defeats. Where You Find It confirms the originality and skill which wins her awards... Galloway has the all-important gift of knowing when her stories end, and lethally accurate powers of observation." -- Judy Cooke Daily Telegraph "The writing can be felt on your pulses. Galloway is a literary endoscopist. She gets beneath the surface of life and exposes the nerves." -- Georgina Brown Independent "She is a quite brilliant observer of the way relationships suddenly turn, of how a look, a gesture, a word can heal or hurt" -- Anthony Quinn Harpers & Queen "Fuses a nerve- exposing honesty with deep compassion" -- Gavin Wallace Scotsman "Intense, gritty and extraordinarily gripping, these stories drop to the deck much that is touted as 'dirty' and 'realistic'. Where You Find It is an excellent collection" -- Desmond Christy Guardian