Tenement Kid by Bobby Gillespie gift sometimes bungling and always ambitious

sometimes bungling and always ambitious

weirdly touching and acute about families' - Guardian'Daring

Elton was hiding a drug addiction that would grip him for over a decade

and despite a sectarian attack that forced her family to flee their home - is even more improbable

The novel deals astutely with the emotional fallout from the attack while weaving in lots of other themes – addiction

Tenement Kid by Bobby Gillespie gift sometimes bungling and always ambitious'Gillespie is rock and roll's Oliver Twist. A punk rock fairytale, razor sharp on class struggle, music, style, and a singular view of the world resulting in one of the world's great bands. Couldn't put down' Courtney LoveBorn into a working class Glaswegian family in the summer of 1961, TENEMENT KID begins in the district of Springburn, soon to be evacuated in Edward Heath's brutal slum clearances. Leaving school at 16 and going to work as a