Book description
In the Scottish fishing village of Mareth, everyone knows everything
about each other - and what they don't know they assume; the villagers
live against a constantly changing backdrop of elaborate scheming and
sexual innuendo. At the hub of this world is the Ocean Cafe, run by
tousle-haired, forty-something Magda, who makes grown men eat their
greens, won't serve customers she doesn't like, and loves her children
and their father with a passion. When Jessie Tate, devastated by recent
tragedy, rents the flat above the cafe in an escape from the city, her
dream of peace and solitude is shattered by the rock 'n' roll music that
thuds through her floor. But perhaps a dose of life in an intimate,
colourful and utterly self-absorbed community is just what Jessie needs
to break free of her ghosts... Isla Dewar was born in Edinburgh. She
wrote articles for magazines and newspapers for many years before she
wrote KEEPING UP WITH MAGDA, her first novel, in 1995. She lives in Fife
with her husband, a cartoonist; they have two sons.
