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“'The Holy City' is a novel about growing up in the close-knit blue-collar community of Clydeside from the Twenties through to the present day, as seen through the eyes of Marion Katie MacLeod ... Meg Henderson has pieced together an enormous jigsaw of memories to create a vision reminiscent of a Stanley Spencer painting. She shows us the true meaning of community spirit, through dialogue singing with humour ... The vernacular speech is convincing and colourful, the characters true ... The overall effect is of being at your auntie’s, of listening to an enthusiastic storyteller, of the fascination of taking a microscope to seemingly ordinary lives, seemingly mundane situations, and bringing them into dramatic focus.”
SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY
“Meg Henderson’s new book is an enchanting tale of a remarkable woman from Clydebank, whose sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes hilarious but always mesmerising memories of the wartime blitz on her beloved town stay sharp half a century later, giving her the strength and courage to meet everything that life throws at her.”
SCOTSMAN
“A hugely absorbing story ... It tells the tale of Marion MacLeod, daughter of a riveter, brought up in the Clydebank tenements, the ‘Holy City’, who loses her entire family in the Blitz. Henderson brings the horror and pain of these wartime experiences vividly to life ... with vigorous humour, common-sense wisdom and vitality.”
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“This book succeeds in evoking the compassion and the tribulations of people ... who endured the hard times of the Thirties only to face the wholesale destruction of the town by the Luftwaffe in 1941 ... [Henderson] mingles fact and fiction to moving effect – her account of the Blitz on Clydebank and its aftermath is harrowing.”
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