Description:
Emma Grae's second novel brings noughties nostalgia face-to-face with Glaswegian grit as her heroine struggles to create space for her writing dreams in working-class life.
Brief description:
Emma Grae is a Scottish author and journalist from Glasgow. She is a passionate advocate of the Scots language and breaking the stigma around mental illness. She has published fiction and poetry in the UK and Ireland since 2014 in journals including The Honest Ulsterman, From Glasgow to Saturn and The Open Mouse. Her debut novel, Be Guid tae yer Mammy, was published by Unbound in August 2021.
As a journalist, she writes under her birth surname, Guinness, and has bylines in a number of publications including Cosmopolitan, the Huffington Post and the Metro.
Review Quotes:
'Wi her latest nuvel, grae is gaun fae strenth tae strenth!' - DR MICHAEL DEMPSTER, Director of The Scots Language Centre
'Deep-rooted prejudice against the Scots language is to be explored in a new book that features a bullied teenage schoolgirl as its main protagonist.' - BRIAN FERGUSSON, The Scotsman