These two novellas - on related themes but very different in approach and narrative voice - are bound back to back or 'heelstergowdie', the Scots for 'back to front' or 'head over heels'.
Loon, by Sheena Blackhall, tells the story of Donnie Paterson and how his troubled life is turned around by the discovery of his missing grandfather in a retirement home and a holiday in the Highlands where he hears a strange story that becomes the key to solving his problems.
In Gilbert McGlinchy, by Hamish MacDonald, the eponymous narrator has the weight of the world's woes on his shoulders so sets out to make his drab Clydebank surroundings exotic by embarking on a story-telling journey - the rationale for which only slowly unfolds.
Presented in a single volume, these two novellas meet, quite literally, halfway.
- ISBN10 1902927729
- ISBN13 9781902927725
- Publish Date 27 May 2003
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Black and White Publishing
- Imprint Itchy Coo
- Format Paperback
- Pages 128
- Language sco