SOUND ESCAPE THEATRE
History, folklore, fantasy
THE GLAD GIVER
THE GLAD GIVER
“But what’s the point of an old woman’s prayers every morning at this time? When all I can think about is my sore knees and getting back to sleep. I’ve been locked in here forty years or more, and the world still suffers, and the plagues still come. So what’s the use of my prayers? And sometimes, I still feel so — lonely. And I wonder if God’s really listening at all to the likes of me.”
An Ayrshire Trilogy
HIGH SPIRITS
“I made the funeral director drive me straight to the ferry afterwards. By the time they were filling in my parents’ graves, I was on the boat. And I never came back.”
THE LADY & THE POET
“Canny Rab, to send his book to Frances Dunlop! She was weel-kent in Ayrshire society, and she it was who made sure his fame would quickly spread about the county and beyond.”
THERE GOES CRAUFURDLAND
“I hardly like to say it. I had a sense whenever I was in there reading, that someone else was there too, in the old chair beside the window.”
An Ayrshire Trilogy has been funded by Creative Scotland.
THE ESCORT
THE ESCORT (2021)
“I remember when the phone call came, you know. I was only nine. I heard Mom’s voice change and I knew something was wrong even then.”
SEA MIST SERIES
SEA CHANGE (2021)
“There's a good many stories told in these islands of ours …Our hills and lochs and shores were full of all kinds of faeries, though they didn't take kindly to folks crying them that.”
GALORE! (2021)
“When I met Cal, it was the coup de foudre – the lightning strike, the love at first sight… Such a handsome boy, he was; very tall and skinny with that hair that he hated me to call red.”
L’Histoire series
CONFESSIONAL (2020)
“We do not know what it is we fear, only that fear sits always with us. When the fire burns low, and the candle flame starts to gutter, we see his shadow on the wall, moving, always moving, and we know he is coming closer.”
COLLABORATION (2019)
“Sure, she sang for the Nazis. Everybody sang for the Nazis – what? You’d rather get shot against a doorway? My Sparrow was no heroine; she might have been named after Edith Cavell, but her middle name has always been Survival. Like me.”
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