Book description
*Now features never-before-published extra chapter*
Glasgow in the 1950s was a deprived and often violent place. 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. Yet despite appalling conditions , there was warmth,
laughter and a remarkable spirit, andMeg's mother and her Aunt Peggy,
both idealistic and emotional women, shielded her from the effects of
her father's heavy drinking.
A hopeless romantic, Peggy searched for a husband until late in life
and then endured a harsh, unhappy marriage. When she died horrifically
in childbirth her death devastated the family and destroyed Meg's
childhood. Only later, after the death of her own mother, was Meg able
to discover the shocking facts behind the tragedy.
Meg Henderson was born in the Townhead area of Glasgow in 1948, the
youngest and only girl of three children. Thereafter she lived in the
Blackhill, Drumchapel and Maryhill areas of the city. She gratefully
left her convent secondary at sixteen, and though writing had always
been her main interest, she spent some years working within the NHS
before going to India with Voluntary Service Overseas. On her return she
married, went to live on a Scottish island and became an adoptive and a
foster parent. She now works as a journalist and lives with her husband
on the East coast of Scotland.
