THE NEW BREADMAKERS

MARGARET THOMSON DAVIS

See also the other titles by Margaret Thomson Davis.

See also The Breadmakers Saga

CATEGORY FICTION
PUB DATE JANUARY 2004
ISBN 1 903265 12 6
EXTENT 224 pp
PRICE £5.99
FORMAT 234 x 156 mm, PAPERBACK
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First published in 1972, The Breadmakers has become a classic saga of life in a working class Glasgow community in the dark days of the Depression and the Second World War. Clydend, McNairs Bakery and tenement life were all vividly brought to life by Melvin and Catriona, Baldy Fowler and his tragic wife and Alec Jackson, the philandering insurance salesman.

But what happened next? Its now ten years later and the bakery business has been good. Catriona and Melvin have moved out of the tenements and into a huge house in the West End. But money isnt making Catriona happy. She and Melvin still do not get on, and her hatred for him is alienating her son, Andrew, who begins to take his fathers side. But how can she ever really escape from her brutal, overbearing husband?

The New Breadmakers saga takes a classic story to a fitting climax. A story of love and loss, passion and hatred, humour and despair, The New Breadmakers is a superb new Glasgow Saga from Margaret Thomson Davis.

A Glaswegian equivalent of Coronation Street
Daily Express on The Breadmakers

The stylish work of this born storyteller is a cut above the rest Evening Times