Book description
A girl, Nell was convinced, should have a good time at seventeen,
have met her true love at eighteen, be engaged at nine, and marry at
twenty-one.
While her mother regards the Locarno Dancehall as a den of iniquity,
for seventeen-year-old, shop-girl, Nell McClusky, it's the centre of
the universe. Where else is she going to meet the man of her dreams
who'll take her away from the hum-drum realities of life on a council
estate in 1950s Edinburgh?
At first Alistair Rutherford doesn't look that promising. He dresses
more like a student than Nell's idol, Buddy Holly. But Alistair comes
from a wealthy family and is studying to be a lawyer, two things that
mean that Nell soon has plans to leave her dance hall days far behind
her. But the reality of marriage is far different to Nell's romantic notions....
Isla Dewar was born in Edinburgh. She wrote articles for magazines
and newspapers for many years before she wrote her first novel,
KEEPING UP WITH MAGDA, in 1995. She lives in Fife with her husband, a cartoonist.
She is the author of IZZY'S WAR, also available from Ebury Press.
