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    No Wonder I Take a Drink
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    No Wonder I Take a Drink

    By Laura Marney

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    Voted one of the 20 best Scottish books of all time in The List magazine. "A biting laugh-out-loud satire" (Louise Welsh) Digitally remastered with author revision, new edit & BONUS creative writing masterclass on creating a sense of place. Trisha, a lonely unsentimental boozer, unexpectedly inherits a home in the Highlands. She leaves her estranged husband, her insolent teenage son and her boring job. Having pictured a rural idyll, she finds rain, sheep, and kamikaze midges. And more rain.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSaraband
    Release dateMar 8, 2012
    ISBN9781908643049
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    No Wonder I Take a Drink
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    Laura Marney

    Laura Marney tries to do a good deed every day. Occasionally bad deeds do accidentally slip in, but there you go, nobody's perfect. She is the author of four novels: No Wonder I Take a Drink, Nobody Loves a Ginger Baby, Only Strange People Go to Church and My Best Friend Has Issues. She also writes short stories and drama for radio and the stage. She lives in Glasgow and holds a part-time post at Glasgow University.

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    • 5/5
      This is a wonderfully comic account of a middle aged hard smoking hard drinking woman's attempt to start a new life in the Scottish Highlands. Without the laughs it would have been dark, shocking even (the dog!! the whisky!! the cake!!!) but the author's keen sense of humour means the reader is enveloped in a warm glow and all of that nasty stuff (including some particularly icky relationships) can be safely glided over. I particularly liked the profusion of Scottish dialect - even the stuff I wasn't familiar with, because the meaning was always clear from the context. I wasn't sure what the interlude as a medical rep was all about, as its relevance to the plot seemed vanishingly small - I wondered if it was in some way autobiographical - but either way I'm glad it found its way in, because the account of the conference was laugh out loud funny.
    • 3/5
      I was initially irritated by the Scots dialect words that kept cropping up but this novel was very funny and had some surprising twists. I enjoyed it far more than the first few pages had lead me to believe I would.