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A case of conflicted loyalties
PAUL SIMON recommends a novel exploring the conflicts between class and gender politics in Edinburgh at the turn of the last century
A sunset over Edinburgh, the setting for Kate Hunter's novel
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ANGUS REID recommends a very unusual documentary: a love story between two disillusioned journalists
In verse and polemic, the bard points out that he is a poet and musician, not a political party
MARIA DUARTE, JAMES WALSH and ANDY HEDGECOCK review The Invite, My Father’s Island, Nirvanna: the Band, the Show, the Movie, and Oh My Goodness!
PAUL DONOVAN is chilled by the contemporary resonance of Harper Lee’s coming of age tale amidst racism and white supremacy in this excellent production
GEOFF BOTTOMS recommends the unashamedly light-hearted escapism on offer in this stage version of the 1963 film
The Caseroom
by Kate Hunter
(Fledgling Press, £9.99)
SET in the Leonards and Canonmills areas of Edinburgh, the protagonist of Kate Hunter's The Caseroom is Iza Ross, whom we meet as she is about to start work at a printing firm as a compositor. It is through her eyes, somewhat naive at first but increasingly aware of the underlying issues determining her life, that Hunter immerses the reader in the city at all levels.
This is an Edinburgh that heaves and swells with industrial tensions, the determined rise of the women’s suffrage movement and an anxiety over the growing Irish independence movement.
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