Night Song of the Last Tram - A Glasgow Childhood - Robert Douglas

A young boy lies curled up in his bed-chair in the corner of a tiny tenement room. Just feet away, his mother screams as his father lashes out at her. But as the last tram of the night comes down the hill outside his window, he focuses on the sound it makes, and lulls himself to sleep.

In NIGHT SONG OF THE LAST TRAM, Robert Douglas paints a hugely moving picture of an abused childhood spent below the poverty line, evoking a post-war Glasgow which, for all its deprivation, was full of memorable characters and blessed with a rare, unshakeable community spirit.

What emerges is a heart-warming, heart-breaking memoir of a boy struggling to become a man in an unkind world, and a mother's unwavering love, triumphant over a father's neglect.

If you were enthralled by Angela's Ashes and charmed by The Road to Nab End, you won't be able to resist NIGHT SONG OF THE LAST TRAM.