It is 1949, and the close at 18 Dalbeattie Street in Maryhill is home to a wonderful cast of Glasgow characters. With the memories of one war fading and the spectre of another approaching, sectarianism and domestic abuse, there is plenty of drama in this street. There is also romance, gossip and loads of patter!
Whose Turn for the Stairs? is the first novel from Robert Douglas, author of the best selling Glasgow memoir Night Song of the Last Tram.Robert was born in Maryhill, Glasgow in 1939 and says he is supposed to be retired and enjoying his hobbies but now finds himself as a full-time writer!
As a 14 year old bursting with energy and life Willie Robertson lied about his age to get a job on the milk truck. Well, maturity was called for. Delivering milk may not be everyone’s idea of a glamorous start to working life but it came to represent far more than Willie and his best friend
Gordon could possibly imagine. Despite the hard backdrop of an industrial town
(‘The Ruskies wouldn’t drop the atom bomb on Dundee; there’s nothing here worth bombing’), this is a fabulous story of boys growing up in the sixties, of camaraderie and optimism, innocence and the harshness of life.
Willie now runs his own company providing global training in the gas and oil industries. He still lives in Dundee with his wife and two children and is proud to call it home.
