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OverviewToday Rena is going to change her life... Rena Jarvie is ahead of her time. Ambitious, attractive, and determined her family escape their shameful past. When she moves to a new town and marries the charming and cosmopolitan Bobby Young, doors finally begin to open. But as Bobby already knows, some things cannot be run from. Spanning the 1930s to the 1960s, Catch the Moments as They Fly is an assured portrait of a rapidly changing Scotland, vivid with humour, and hardship, and love. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Zoë StrachanPublisher: Blackwater Press Imprint: Blackwater Press ISBN: 9798987718162Pages: 416 Publication Date: 21 September 2023 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews"""Woven through Catch the Moments as They Fly is an almost Fitzgerald-like awareness of the subtle corruptions and compromises that haunt our dreams of 'self-improvement' and social aspiration. Glasgow and Kilmarnock are much more than mere backdrops to the delicate web of human voices and fates in the novel: their own civic destinies, spanning two world wars and decades of aftermath, play a powerful and evocative part in this wonderfully vivid and moving portrait of the past."" Wayne Price, author of Mercy Seat; ""Catch the Moments as They Fly is, simultaneously, an engrossing and affecting love story, a family saga, and a deft portrait of Scottish urban life in the wake of two world wars. Subtle, layered, and full of captivating historical detail as well as vividly drawn characters, this is a novel to get lost in. Absolutely compelling."" Jane McKie, author of Carnation Lily Lily Rose" Author InformationStrachan grew up in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. She studied Archaeology and Philosophy at the University of Glasgow and earned an MPhil in Creative Writing at the universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde. She later became a creative writing tutor at the university of Glasgow. Strachan's writing has won the Betty Trask Award; been shortlisted for the Saltire First Book of the Year; seen her named Writer-in-Residence at the National Museum of Scotland; awarded the Hermann Kesten fellowship; nominated for the London Book Awards; shortlisted for Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book of the Year; among other accolades. Strachan lives in Glasgow with her partner, the novelist Louise Welsh. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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