27 Raglan Street

<p>Dec 1942. Robert is eleven months old. His father killed in the war in Africa leaves him with wee Jeanie and three siblings; John five; Jean eight; and Hetty thirteen. They live in two dingy ground-floor rooms behind a working men’s pub in Glasgow. This is the story of the youngster’s fight for survival and dignity; recounting joys and tribulations among his peers street gangs bullies drunks paedophiles and a dead old woman in a back close. His training in a military boarding school in Perthshire augurs freedom from the degradation of the slums of his birth. But has he changed?   </p>