Book description
Mick Little used to be a shipbuilder on the Glasgow yards. But as
they closed one after another down the river, the search for work took
him and his beloved wife Cathy to Australia, and back again,
struggling for a living, longing for home. Thirty years later the
yards are nearly all gone and Cathy is dead. And now Mick will have to
find a new way to live: to get away, start again, and try to deal with
the guilt he feels over her death.
In his devastating new novel Ross Raisin brings vividly to life the
story of an ordinary man caught between the loss of a great love and
the hard edges of modern existence. Tracing Mick's journey from the
Glasgow shipyards to the crowded, sweating kitchens of an airport
hotel, to the streets and riversides of London, it is an intensely
moving portrait of a life being lived all around us, and a story for
our times.
