Westburn Blues

<p>Dante Rinaldi is born to Italian immigrants in the West of Scotland. Stranded by World War Two in Italy during a summer with his grandfather Dante grows roots in his family's rural homeland and as a young adult identifies with a band of mountain partisans fighting the fascists.</p><p>Young love delayed and the Rinaldis' struggles in post-war Scotland carry Dante into the life of Chris McCoull: a neglected adolescent who finds his calling and romance while working for a Greek-owned shipping line.</p><p>Carefully researched and historically detailed Westburn Blues is a rendering of the Scottish-Italian experience and filled with a cast of colorful characters... from sympathetic to truly evil.</p>