Be guid tae yer mammy

Be guid tae yer mammy
Emma Grae
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 288pg
6 Jan 2022 UK
International import eta 10-19 days
9781789651171
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Kate and her Granny Jean have nothing in common. Jean' s great claim to fame is raising her weans without two pennies to rub together, and Kate' s an aspiring scriptwriter whose anxiety has her stuck in bad thought after bad thought. But what Jean' s Glaswegian family don' t know is that she dreamed of being a film star and came a hairsbreadth away from making it a reality. Now in her nineties, Jean is a force to be reckoned with. But when the family starts to fall apart Jean must face her failings as a mammy head-on - and Kate too must fight her demons. Either that or let go of her dream of the silver screen forever. . .
' A smashing story with a strong Scots voice' Dr Michael Dempster ' This is a brave novel. . . with a strong cultural identity. The main character - a thrawn auld besom wha' s guid tae hersel raither than her lassies an granddochters but whase sleekit sense o humour an couthie turn o phrase gars ye like her despite yerse' Billy Kay, author of Scots: The Mither Tongue ' The characters in this book speak to me both as a Scot and a woman. Yes, they speak my Scots tongue but, more importantly, I relate to the story as that of the people and situations I understand and recognise. A good read' Annette Chapman, Bmus(hons) TQ(fe) ALCM LLCM(td) FLCM
Emma Grae is a Scottish author and journalist from Glasgow. She has been writing in Scots since she was a student at the University of Strathclyde, tipsily coauthoring poems with fellow writer Lorna Wallace before moving on to write fiction in the language. She has published fiction and poetry in the UK and Ireland since 2014 in journals including The Honest Ulsterman, From Glasgow to Saturn and The Open Mouse. As a journalist, she writes under her birth surname, Guinness, and has bylines in a number of publications including Cosmopolitan, the Huffington Post and the Metro. Be Guid tae yer Mammy is her first novel. @emmagraeauthor

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