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For the Love of Willie - Agnes Owens

For the Love of Willie

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Buch | Softcover
160 Seiten
2026 | Centenary Edition
Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited (Verlag)
978-1-84697-758-9 (ISBN)
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Peggy is turning a dark girlhood romance into a novel and is trying to get her fellow inmate at the mental hospital, known as the Duchess, to read the manuscript. Frankly the duchess would prefer a Mills and Boon, but her friend’s wartime tragi-comedy soon gets a grip on her imagination.



For the Love of Willie is a compassionate look at wartime pregnancy and teenage predicaments through the eyes of Peggy, first as a shy sixteen year-old in love and later as an inmate in a psychiatric hospital.



Published to celebrate Agnes Owens' centenary year in 2026.

Agnes Owens was married twice and raised seven children, and worked as a cleaner, typist and factory worker. Her books include People Like That and For the Love of Willie, which was shortlisted for the 1998 Stakis Prize. Her short stories appeared alongside those of her friends and fellow authors James Kelman and Alasdair Gray in Lean Tales. Bad Attitudes, which consists of two novellas ('Bad Attitudes' and 'Jen's Party'), was longlisted for the 2003 Saltire Literary Awards. She died in 2014. Liz Lochhead was born in Motherwell in 1947. While studying at the Glasgow School of Art she began to write seriously, gradually losing her way with her initial dream of becoming a painter. Her first book of poetry, Memo for Spring, was published in 1972 and sold 5,000 copies. The Scottish-Canadian Writers Exchange Fellowship,1978–9, marked her transition to full-time writer. She has since published several plays and poetry collections including A Choosing and most recently Fugitive Colours. Liz Lochhead was Scots Makar from 2011–2016.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 7.5.2026
Reihe/Serie Agnes Owens Centenary Editions
Einführung Liz Lochhead
Verlagsort Edinburgh
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Gewicht 160 g
Themenwelt Literatur Historische Romane
Literatur Märchen / Sagen
Literatur Romane / Erzählungen
ISBN-10 1-84697-758-4 / 1846977584
ISBN-13 978-1-84697-758-9 / 9781846977589
Zustand Neuware
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