Jellyfish [Paperback]

A stunning short story collection by one of the UK’s best contemporary fiction writers

Janice Galloway redefined contemporary Scottish fiction with the extraordinaryThe Trick is to Keep Breathing, first published in 1989, going on to become a towering presence in British literature, winning the McVitie’s Prize, the EM Forster Award, the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year Award, and the SMIT Non-fiction Book of the Year. She is a novelist, short story writer, memoiriere, librettist, essayist, and poet. Following on from her most recent award-winning creative non-fiction,This is Not About MeandAll Made Up,comes her fourth short story collection, the outstandingJellyfish, confirming her position as one of the most elegant, unflinching, masterful chroniclers of contemporary life and love.

"Superbly rendered. . . . Be warned, Galloway's lyric psychological realism is as dense as Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse. . . . Dreadfully well done."  —Kirkus ReviewsonThe Trick Is to Keep Breathing

"Meticulously observed, agonizing and funny. . . . A thoughtful, witty chronicle of depression and potential renewal."  —Publishers WeeklyonThe Trick Is to Keep Breathing