Other authors: Janice Galloway

This is part of my Other Authors series, where I share dissociated voices written by a number of different novelists.

Today I’m sharing my thoughts on The Trick Is To Keep Breathing by Janice Galloway.

Joy, the protagonist in The Trick Is To Keep Breathing, doesn’t seem to connect with other people and we learn a lot about her from her interaction with inanimate objects – such as her need to interact with a can of soup which leads to the delusion that she doesn’t need food.

“The next thing I...