Galloway Street

In the tradition of Seamus Deane's Booker shortlisted Reading in the Dark, a brilliant memoir about growing up Irish in Scotland.
John Boyle was born and raised in Scotland but he could never feel Scottish. His parents were poor immigrants from the West of Ireland who came to Scotland to find work and eventually settled in Paisley, where John was the first of six children.
Galloway Street beautifully captures the poverty and the rough humour of the family's life in the Paisley tenements, the s