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Scottish BookThe Trick Is To Keep Breathing (Paperback)
Author: Janice Galloway
£9.95
ScotlandGrief & LossPsychological Suspense
The Trick Is to Keep Breathing follows Joy Stone, a young drama teacher in Scotland whose life unravels after the death of her lover, as she struggles with grief, isolation and mental breakdown. Told through fragmented, intimate prose, it captures her fight to endure. For readers of raw literary fiction exploring mental health and inner collapse.
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From the corner of a darkened room, Joy Stone watches herself. The distance is both protection and punishment, a way of surviving the day by splitting it into something she can bear.
Memories surface without warning: the deaths of her lover and her mother, returning in flashes that make the present feel thin and unreliable. Life narrows to the smallest units. Each day becomes a negotiation, each encounter something to endure, each second a test of how to keep going.
The Trick is to Keep Breathing follows Joy’s search for whatever holds, for the trick that makes living possible when grief keeps breaking through. Told with shattering clarity and wry wit, it remains a Scottish classic that refuses to look away.
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