This short story collection is about life in a small Scottish town; the drinks and the drunks, the highs and the lows, the girls and the boys, most importantly the music and the fitba'.Gordon Legge has a real knack of writing about characters and events, so much so that you find yourself believing that these characters exist and what Legge is actually writing is snapshots of his own life. While he depicts Scottish life with all its positives and negatives it is done with a real love of this gallus nation that shines through the stories. The first story, Summers on the Dole, really shows what it means to have and be a mate and how life gets in the way (not bad for two pages!)
"The Big Man recalled the stories and The Tank made them funny. Hamish claimed to have done it all and Stuart looked like he had. Wendy never shut up and Grant hardly said a word: Wee Harry's the smartest guy you'd ever meet and Mikey's brains were in his dick.
There were nutters to be avoided, hangers-on to be ignored and casualties to be dumped"
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