Margaret Thomson Davis Books

On a glorious, if blisteringly hot, Saturday in August 2010, Margaret Thomson’s world is suddenly shattered by the incomprehensible news that her twenty-two-year-old son, a medic in the army, has taken his life. In a deep state of shock, Thomson and her husband immediately travel to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, where their son Kieran was stationed, in an effort to assist their daughter-in-law. Upon their arrival, though, the couple find themselves plunged into a labyrinthine and, at times, seemingly bizarre world of military rules and regulations. Eventually, after the funeral and the memorial services are over, an even more challenging journey―emotionally as well as geographically―ensues, especially for Margaret, who, as a former journalist, is determined to find out more about the circumstances surrounding her son’s death, no matter how high the cost. As she enters her second year of grieving, Thomson receives an unexpected invitation from an unlikely source―the army, which she’s often blamed in many ways, whether fairly or not, for her son’s death. Seizing upon this opportunity, Thomson finds that her perspective is changed―literally―and that as a result the world does indeed look different now.

Follows the story of a Glasgow working class community living through the dark days of the Depression and the Second World War. In this title, Clydend, McNair's Bakery and the surrounding tenements, are all vividly depicted, as are the lives and loves of people like Catriona, a young woman trying to cope with an overbearing husband.

In World War I Glasgow, two women are locked in bitter rivalry over the love of one man. Adam Monkton, head of the family building firm, is trapped into marriage by Christina, but is still strongly drawn to Annalie, the servant-girl who bore his first child. By the author of "Wounds of War".