It Takes One to Know One

‘The best, the funniest, cleverest, the most enjoyable writer in Scotland today.

The sea was a step away, round the corner.

I still don’t know what I want to do when I grow up.’
Martha knew what he meant.

That’s life. We move from difficult age to difficult age. Just when we relax because one difficult time is over – wham – we get embroiled in the next one.’

was a breeze when you were seven.

Life was a breeze when you were seven.

But then I think every age is a difficult age. That’s life. We move from difficult age to difficult age. Just when we relax because one difficult time is over – wham – we get embroiled in the next one.’

He said, ‘Oh, man, that’s

But it was as near to the truth as she was prepared to go.

He stopped arranging his pens and looked at her, eyebrows raised. ‘Um?’

‘Separated,’ she told him. This wasn’t actually