Book description
Urban tales of despair and dysfunction are Laura Hird's trademark and
she does not disappoint in Hope and Other Urban Tales. Set in the
low-rent areas of Edinburgh, Hird's slices of reality are gritty, bleak
and often darkly funny. Yet the possibility of hope, always just out of
reach, unifies this collection, conveying that just as circumstances can
reveal the morally obscure darkness in 'good' people, so can seemingly
irredeemable characters harbour well-hidden pockets of humanity.
