The Breadmakers Saga (Reprint)
Margaret Thomson Davis

See the other titles by Margaret Thomson Davis .

See The New Breadmakers, the sequel to this book.

CATEGORY CLASSIC FICTION
PUB DATE MAY 2004
ISBN 1 873631 27 8
EXTENT 592 PP.
PRICE £9.99
FORMAT 198 x 129 P/B
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The Breadmakers Saga follows the story of a Glasgow working class community living through the dark days of the Depression and the Second World War. Clydend, McNairs Bakery and the surrounding tenements, are all vividly and absorbingly depicted, as are the lives and loves of people like Catriona, a young woman trying to cope with an overbearing husband; the foreman baker Baldy Fowler and his tragic wife, Sarah; Alec Jackson, the philandering insurance salesman; and a host of other colourful characters who live up to the ordinary challenges of life and the extraordinary challenges of war with honesty, optimism and hope.

All human life is there, laughter and tears together.
The Scotsman

Mrs Davis catches time with honest-to-goodness certainty.
The Guardian

Simply written with an exceptional quality of understatement, it wins instant sympathy.
Glasgow Evening Citizen

The epic trilogy of a Glasgow working-class community living through the dark days of the Depression and the Second World War from one of Glasgows best-loved novelists.