Amande's Bed

Winner of the Scottish First Book of the Year Award from the Saltire Society

"Hits the spot."
Sunday Herald
"Bold and extermely accomplished."
Scotland on Sunday
"It's hilarious, dark, sweet, crowded and alive. In the end it moved me to tears."
Ali Smith in The Guardian

It is 1956 and post-war Scotland is reeling - with sex, Americans, storms, the news from Budapest and fish. Young Peem is hankering, trying to find his legs in that reel - what with Miss Florence, his mother, Haze, Bridget Amande, Dinah, plus the girls in his class.