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Staying On Past the Terminus

Robert Douglas

Glasgow 1961.

It is ten years since we last visited the close at 18 Dalbeattie Street in Maryhill.
The stalwarts are still there...Ella, Drena, Rhea and 'Granny' Thomson (86).
Irma the German war bride speaks fluent Scots nowadays. Well, 'Fluent' if you were brought up in the same close as the Broons and Oor Wullie.

Glasgow's beloved trams still run on the Maryhill Road. But not for long. There will not be a tramcar left in Glasgow by the end of next year. The new tenant, Frank Galloway knows all about this - he's a driver. The other new arrival is Ruby Baxter who impresses no one with her attitude - as Granny Thomson says 'She's no better than she ought to be, that yin!'

Robert Douglas brings his usual blend of laughter and tears to this latest novel and his many fans will not be disappointed.

  • Classification : General & Literary Fiction
  • Pub Date : MAR 10, 2012
  • Imprint : Hachette-Scotland
  • Page Extent : 416
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9780755380299
  • Price : INR 899
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Robert Douglas

Now retired Robert Douglas worked as a prison officer and an electricity chargehand. Although he has lived in Northumberland for many years he says you can take the boy out of Glasgow but you'll never take Glasgow out of the boy.

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