Janice Galloway : The Trick is to Keep Breathing (The Trick Is to Keep Breathing - Janice Galloway)

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Product:	The Trick Is to Keep Breathing - Janice Galloway
Date:	21/09/00 (227 review reads)
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Advantages: an unforgetable read.

Disadvantages: can be traumatic experience to read about feelings this 'raw'.

Janice Galloway’s book, “The Trick is to Keep Breathing”, breaks new ground,
in that it is a revelation of what it can be like to
be a woman in the modern world.

Janice Galloway approaches the delicate subject of mental health with a scalpel and a magnifying glass.

She strips away the layers of misconceptions about women and their neurosis in a way which is both shocking and revealing.
Shocking because, unlike so many other of her contemporaries, Janice Galloway presents the facts
in an uncompromising and vivid fashion,
without the veneer of respectability,
simply and truthfully.

Joy, the solo character of the book is
nearer “the edge” than anyone, man or woman,
should have to go.

Joy is a drama teacher who experiences an identity crisis as a woman, an employee and a Scottish citizen.
Joy is forced to face herself.

As Janice Galloway herself explains,
“Seeing things very clearly is a very painful experience . . ."

Anyone who has experienced the trauma
which life’s little arbitrary actualities
can bestow on we humans will understand the
finer details in this little gem of a book.

What do women think?
What do women know?

If you consider yourself to be knowledgeable on the subject of “women” -
read this book

If you consider yourself lucky to be “a woman” -
read this book

Even if you are the world’s biggest misogynist -
read this book

You’ll never forget you did

You’ll never regret you did

GG

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