THE SONG OF SAUCHIEHALL STREET is a partly autobiographical and partly dramatised memoir of growing up in Glasgow after the Second World War, It is a genealogical study with a difference, combining a fresh and radical approach to family history with a main theme of immigration. This theme underpins early recollections of ocean voyages from Scotland to Australia and the perennial search for childhood roots attached to special memories of people and places.

In a mixture of literary styles - stories, anecdotes, poems and local vernnacular - the book sets out to capture something of the humour and nostalgia of old Glasgow... Tenement life, steamer trips down the Clyde, changes in historic urbanscapes and the legendary sub-culture of the Tally’ (Italian) ice-cream café empire.

Being a migrant is a highly personal and emotional experience. This has coloured most of the authors choices in life. Through recreating a cast of genuine characters, heightened at times for comic effect, the book gets inside the woman’s perspective - how it feels to be a half- Irish, half-Italian Scot, now living in Australia and caught between tradition and liberation, patriotism and multiculturalism.

Printed on art paper and illustrated throughout in a mixture of black and white and colour images, the text combines archival photographs with original acrylic paintings and pen etchings.

Copies of THE SONG OF SAUCHIEHALL STREET are available direct from the publishers:

           Coora Films Pty Ltd, P0 Box 79 Mitcham 3132 Victoria Australia