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Mollycoddling the Feckless by Alistair Findlay
Disappointing memoir evades pressing concerns of social work system
KENNY MacASKILL is disappointed by a polemical, rather than factual, account of the Lone Star State and its political path since the civil war
PAUL DONOVAN is fascinated by the lives of Charles and Mary Bagot, and the insight this biography shines on the morals of pre-Victorian society
GORDON PARSONS appreciates fine performances and a feel for ambiguity, but misses the music of the dialogue
DOUGLAS FIELD relishes the hard-boiled language, satire and humour of the third and last of the Harlem trilogy
STEPHANIE BROWN draws attention to the hidden labour of the female embroiderers, and how a 19th century replica made no such error
MIK SABIERS revels in a band that ploughs an idiosyncratic furrow of expletive laden, guitar-driven alt rock
GREAT title, disappointing book.
Alistair Findlay’s irreverent memoirs of a 40-year career as a social worker in Scotland could have been so much better if he had built his discourse around the real-life personal stories of the many clients he encountered from the early 1970s onwards.
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