Stef's latest find, The Ripening Time is revised and adapted by Catherine MacLeod from the original
novel by Alistair Mair, which was first published in 1970 by William Heinemann
and later released in paperback entitled The Tomato Man.
This
is a beautifully remastered novel, based in the not-so-swinging Glasgow
Sixties; I savoured every word as I fell deeper into the story and Tom's
predicament.
Glasgow,
1960. A time of bright new beginnings ...
The Gorbals tenements are
being demolished and gleaming new estates are carving their way through the
green fields that surround the city.
Tom, raised in a Glasgow
tenement, is a sheltered, self-contained lad who drifts through life while his
widowed mother worries about his inability to find the right girl. Then Mary
from the new Easterton estate takes him in hand.
Surrounded by all the
sparkling new appliances of hire-purchase matrimony, the recession begins to
bite. Long hours, loneliness and cruelty lead Tom to drift off in another
direction, down the garden to the safe haven of his greenhouse.
A
man needs a hobby, and surely gardening never hurt a soul ...
~
The
original hardback novel The Ripening Time and the paperback entitled The Tomato
Man are out of print but can still be found in Abe books or on Amazon through
quality collectors' bookshops worldwide.
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Only just noticed this - thank you so much.
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