Tells the story of Marion McLeod, the daughter of a riveter, who has been brought up in the Clydebank tenements and brings the horror and pain of these wartime experiences vividly to life as she loses her entire family in the Blitz.
Meg Henderson Boeken
Meg Henderson is een journaliste en auteur wiens romans zich vaak afspelen in het Glasgow van voor en tijdens de oorlog. Haar schrijven, dat vaak put uit persoonlijke familie-ervaringen, portretteert de complexiteit van menselijke relaties en de sociale omstandigheden van haar tijd. Henderson combineert haar journalistieke inzicht met een diep begrip van haar geboortegrond, waarmee ze beeldende en inzichtelijke werken creëert. Haar boeken nodigen lezers uit in de wereld van het vroegere Glasgow via boeiende verhalen en authentieke personages.
Meg Henderson was part of a large family, and when the tenement block in which they lived collapsed they had to move to the notorious Blackhill district where religious sectarianism and gang warfare were part of daily life.
They called her Auld Nally—the local moneylender in one of Glasgow's roughest areas, Inchcraig. But once she'd been Alice McInally, beautiful and beloved by her childhood sweetheart. She hadn't anticipated the outcry when they announced their betrothal—as he was Catholic and she was Protestant. Cast out by their well-to-do families, the couple's hope of a bright future founders in the realities of war-torn Glasgow, and Alice ends up struggling to make ends meet in the only way she can. Somehow she will win respectability for the children in her care—even if that means telling a lie with the best of intentions!
Second sight
- 343bladzijden
- 13 uur lezen
This is a moving story of a woman sending her pilot son away to fight in the Second World War. Nancy's son, Calli is shot down in 1943 and his body is never found. For more than 50 years she is unable to accept his death, then finally the missing plane is found. But there is still a feeling of life attached to Calli.
