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Scottish BookTony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-cream Float Before He Stole My Ma (Paperback)
Author: Kerry Hudson
£9.95
ScotlandSet in AberdeenGrief & LossUrban Gritty
Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-Cream Float Before He Stole My Ma follows Janie Ryan growing up in unstable housing across Scotland with a charismatic but unreliable mother, facing poverty, neglect and fierce loyalty as she tries to make sense of her childhood. For readers of gritty literary fiction about family, resilience and working-class life.
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In Aberdeen, Janie Ryan is born into a life already mapped out for her. She is meant to become the latest in a long line of fishwives, with the same weary expectations and the same narrowing horizons.
Ahead lies a future of feckless men, filthy council flats, and bread and marge sandwiches, the daily compromises that are supposed to add up to a life. But Janie is not content to accept what is waiting. She wants something different, even if she cannot yet name exactly what it is.
Born and bred for combat, she meets the world head on, refusing to soften herself for anyone else’s comfort. The story follows her as she pushes against what she has been handed, and against the people and pressures determined to keep her in her place.
Winner of the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust First Book Award 2013. Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, the Sky Arts Awards, the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award, the Saltire Scottish First Book of the Year, the Portsmouth First Fiction Award, the Green Carnation Prize and the Polari Prize.
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