Daisy on the Outer Line

I loved this even more than the last Ross Sayers' book I read, which was "Sonny and Me."

I'm not going to go into detail. I'll just say that the book's funny throughout, and often very touching. There's a kind of supernatural, time-travel, second-chance-at-life element to the story, through which we see Daisy — a troubled, selfish, hard-drinking young woman at university in Glasgow do a lot of learning and end up being a very different person.

Do read it. If you're not Scots it might take a wee while to get into the language, but you'll pick it up quickly. It's written in a slightly diluted but very effective form of the Glasgow dialect of Scots. The language is very enjoyable.

Damn, this book made me want to move back to Scotland, and particularly to Glasgow, where I lived for many years.