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Last Dance at the Wrecker's Ball

Robert Douglas

Glasgow 1971. The old way of life is under threat for the tight-knit community in Dalbeattie Street Maryhill. The shadow of the wrecker's ball looms large over their homes and they must face the choice of moving to a new estate or dispersing throughout the city.

But powerful friendships refuse to be broken. These characters have gone through too much together to be destroyed by some measly planning scheme. They'll face this with the same inimitable Scottish humour and strength of spirit that have carried them through other tough times.

Douglas' vivid portrait of Seventies Glasgow recreates in glorious detail a particular time and place but at its heart are the universal themes of love friendship and community.

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  • Classification : General & Literary Fiction
  • Pub Date : MAR 10, 2013
  • Imprint : Hachette-Scotland
  • Page Extent : 416
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9780755380312
  • 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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