Night Song of the Last Tram - A Glasgow Childhood - Couverture souple

Exquisite ... a beautiful paean (Sunday Times)

His prose is direct, pacy, uncluttered ... engaging, deftly written and honestly remembered (Herald)

NIGHT SONG OF THE LAST TRAM is a simply written book and all the better for it ... It recreates stunningly clear memories of a Glasgow childhood ... At the age of 66, Robert Douglas has written his first book - I cannot believe it will be his last. (Daily Mail, Scotland)

A well-written slice of social history delivered directly by an eyewitness (Independent on Sunday)

It has been a while since a book has reduced me to both tears of laughter and sympathy, but Robert Douglas managed it with NIGHT SONG OF THE LAST TRAM. (Journal, Newcastle)

It is as a record of the old Glasgow spirit that this book is especially worthwhile. (Sunday Herald)

The portrait of his mother is beautifully done ... and her loss (through breast cancer) when he was still very young is heartbreaking: it brings tears to my eyes now just writing about it. Douglas has real skill in conveying experience and his use of the Glasgow vernacular lends an extra poetry to the writing. A quite exceptional autobiography. (Publishing News, Book of the Month, November)

Told with a direct, unsentimental honesty ... a vividness that makes them real. This is a remarkable, deeply moving autobiography. (Cumberland Times)

Wonderful ... vivid. (Stockport Express)

The descriptions of streets and smells and childhood feelings ... come from some little fire that's never gone out in Douglas' mind ... His prose is direct, pacy, uncluttered ... engaging, deftly written and honestly remembered. (Herald)

A wonderfully colourful and deeply poignant memoir of growing up in a 'single end' - one room in a Glasgow tenement - during and immediately after the Second World War. Although young Robert Douglas's life was blighted by the cruel if sporadic presence of his father, it was equally blessed by the love of his mother, Janet. While the story of their life together is in some ways very sad, it is also filled with humorous and happy memories. NIGHT SONG OF THE LAST TRAM is a superb evocation of childhood and of a Glasgow of trams and tenements that has long since disappeared.