Janice Galloway's new novel is based on the life of Clara Schumann - celebrated nineteenth-century concert pianist and composer, editor and teacher, friend of Brahms - who was also wife of Robert Schumann, the mother of his eight children, and the woman who cared for him through a series of
This inventive first novel explores the widespread problem of female depression. A 27-year-old drama teacher named Joy Stone is losing her grip on the world. The problems of everyday living accumulate and begin to torture the narrator, who blames her problems not on her work or on the accidental
