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A collection of tales that alternate between the enclosed, austere fishing community of Broughty Ferry and the implacably encroaching tower-blocks of nearby Dundee. Bill Duncan creates a gallery of characters from both the old world and the new.
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In tales that alternate between the enclosed, austere fishing community of Broughty Ferry and the looming tower-blocks of nearby Dundee, Bill Duncan's debut collection creates a gallery of unforgettable characters from both the old world and the new: the Maist Ignorant Man in the World, who claims to have seen the only surviving man-eating eel on the east coast; ninety-three-year-old Boat Rab, one of the old-style Ferry folk who has never once set foot outside the village; a young man getting ready for a school reunion who feels again the pain of his first love; a man for whom a strand of hair on an unworn suit brings back memories of his departed wife and dead son.
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