Foreign parts
By: Janice Galloway.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Normal, IL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
Subjects: Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.; Scots -- France -- Fiction.; Single women -- Fiction.; Friendship -- Fiction.; Travelers -- Fiction.; Normandy (France) -- Fiction.; Scotland -- Fiction.
Description: "What begins as a driving holiday in Northern France for two Scotswomen turns into a caustic and funny account of dysfunctional relationships - both between men and women and between women friends. Cassie and Rona - in their late thirties, both single and childless - are on each other's nerves from the moment they cross the Channel: Cassie is testy and cynical, Rona patient and plodding.

Both are self-conscious of the fact that they seem to fit the stereotype of two "spinsters" linked by loneliness, and consequently rebel against the notion that a woman needs a man to feel "complete." Faced with the dilemma of "fancying men and not liking them very much," the women ponder the alternatives as they endure one tourist nightmare after another."--BOOK JACKET.