Childish Things

Robin Jenkins

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Product Details

ISBN: 9781841952284
Publisher: Canongate
Publication Date: 31 May 2002
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Pages: 248 p.

About the Book

For Gregor McLeod - 72-year-old retired schoolmaster, 6-handicap golfer and Rotary Club socialist -the death of his much-loved wife comes as a terrible blow. And yet, life goes on, and there is still much romance to be found. The only question is with whom? The wealthy village widow Susan? Mad Millie or embittered Chrissie? The powerful, ex-Hollywood starlet Mrs Birkenberger (aka Linda Blossom)? Or her beautiful, husband-murdering house maid? From the west coast of Scotland to California - mixing wit with wisdom - Robin Jenkins has produced another great piece of fiction. Eminently readable, extremely funny and genuinely insightful.

Reviews

"His uncompromising, deeply ambivalent analysis of human idealism has established him as the greatest living fiction-writer in Scotland." The Scotsman, June 2000
"Jenkins is quite simply a major contemporary writer." The Herald
"Jenkins is the Scottish Thomas Hardy; he can also be seen as the post-war founder of the movement in Scottish fiction, culminating in James Kelman and Irvine Welsh, which saw fictional escape to a romanticised past as bogus." The Scotsman
"If you love the novel; if you are interested in books that are human and wise, not slick and cynical; then treat yourself this year to some Robin Jenkins. . . he is simply wonderful." Andrew Marr