The Dear Green Place

Set in nineteen-sixties Glasgow, The Dear Green Place is a portrait of the struggles and conflicts of a young working-class hero and would-be novelist Mat Craig whose desire to define himself as an artist creates social and family tensions.   This classic of Scottish twentieth-century literature is an absorbing and moving story. With vivid descriptions of the city around Mat, it remains as authentic and relevant as it was more than fifty years after its original publication.