num_pages: 262
description: From the beginning this novel's tension weaves warp and woof between hilarity and hell. Two women friends travel through France, encountering backroad-European misogynist crudities and the awkward experiences of being female, over thirty, with your teeth almost literally at your closest friend's throat, and "fancying men, but not liking them very much." Throughout Rona's random acts of innocent irritation and Cassie's caustic reactions, the funny and fumbled art of their compassion supersedes self-slaughter, stretches itself thin, but refuses to puncture, throughout years of pals together both on holiday and in troubled spirit.
language: English
title: Foreign Parts
titlecomplete: Foreign Parts (British Literature)
characters: Rona, Cassie
genres: Literature, Literary Fiction, Scotland, Novels, Fiction, Travel, Unfinished
ratings_count: 259
places: France
publisher: Dalkey Archive Press