Finding Peggy
  • Published: 4 January 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446421031
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320
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Finding Peggy

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4 Jan 2011
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1 Oct 1994
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A true and shocking account of growing up in a Glasgow slum

*Now features never-before-published extra chapter*

Glasgow in the 1950s was a deprived and often violent place. Meg Henderson was part of a large family, and when the tenement block in which they lived collapsed they had to move to the notorious Blackhill district where religious sectarianism and gang warfare were part of daily life. Yet despite appalling conditions , there was warmth, laughter and a remarkable spirit, andMeg's mother and her Aunt Peggy, both idealistic and emotional women, shielded her from the effects of her father's heavy drinking.

A hopeless romantic, Peggy searched for a husband until late in life and then endured a harsh, unhappy marriage. When she died horrifically in childbirth her death devastated the family and destroyed Meg's childhood. Only later, after the death of her own mother, was Meg able to discover the shocking facts behind the tragedy.
  • Published: 4 January 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446421031
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320
Categories:

About the author

Meg Henderson

Meg Henderson was born in the Townhead area of Glasgow in 1948, the youngest and only girl of three children. Thereafter she lived in the Blackhill, Drumchapel and Maryhill areas of the city. She gratefully left her convent secondary at sixteen, and though writing had always been her main interest, she spent some years working within the NHS before going to India with Voluntary Service Overseas. On her return she married, went to live on a Scottish island and became an adoptive and a foster parent. Over the years she had 'kept her hand in' by writing the occasional newspaper article and when she gave up fostering she decided to write full-time. She now lives with her husband, three children and three cats on the East Coast of Scotland.

Praise for Finding Peggy

A warm and vivid memory of Glasgow life - it provokes nostalgia and anger in equal measure. Apart from anything else, this is a gripping story, told with real passion

Magnus Linklater

Meg Henderson's journalistic background undoubtedly adds to the ease with which she describes people and places, making them at once familiar and freshly seen. Finding Peggy is full of rich detail told with humour and sharpness.

Scotland on Sunday