n the fast disappearing slums of the Claggans district of a big
Scottish city, only a few tenements still stand. In this strange
half-world a small group of men and women live out one hot summer
week of their lives. Experience is heightened by the presence of a
maniac among them-a man whom some of them at least must know, a sex
killer who already has his eye on his next victim and is planning
to strike again. But this is in no way a whodunit. It is a warm and
human story of the loves, fears and hopes of simple people: of Mrs
Sheehan, feeling lost and useless with her family grown up and
gone; of old Pat Brady and his sons in the neglected, womanless
apartment opposite, tossed in cross-currents of pity, love and
hate; of Eugene Carty, tied to a tyrannical invalid mother, whose
problems have an unexpected end; of young Bernadette Sheehan, whose
return home after eighteen months working in London, dramatically
changes the course of several lives. Moira Burgess has drawn on her
own experience while working as a librarian in Glasgow to create
the lives and background of her characters, and her natural powers
as a storyteller to weave these into a convincing whole. Moira
Burgess is a novelist, short story writer and literary historian,
born in Campbeltown, Argyll, and now living in Glasgow. Writing has
been the most important part of her life since childhood and she
has published two novels, The Day Before Tomorrow (first published
in 1971) and Speak, Adam published as A Rumour of Strangers in 1987
and reprinted in 2009. For some years she worked mainly on
non-fiction, publishing The Glasgow Novel: a bibliography (3rd
edition 1999) and a book on the same topic, Imagine a City (1998).
Author of Mitchison's Ghosts, a study of the supernatural and
mythical elements in the work of Naomi Mitchison, she is now
working on an edition of Mitchison's collected prose. Douglas
Gifford is Professor Emeritus of Scottish Literature at the
University of Glasgow.
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