High Points

Here are some of them:

• Telling the first four Kay Mason Foundation scholars that they had won themselves an education
• Seeing them graduate with honours from high school, five years later
• Watching an old lady read The Drowning People on a train with tears in her eyes
• Being nominated for, and then winning, Italy’s Grinzane Cavour prize for Best First Novel
• Being told by a plain-speaking Glaswegian friend that The Lighted Rooms is ‘very far from being complete and utter shite’*
• Reading the first Masters Thesis on The Drowning People

*In Glaswegian vernacular, ‘very far from being complete and utter shite’ is high praise.  Click here for other REVIEWS