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Amande's Bed first came out 20 years ago and was hailed immediately as a Scottish classic by reviewers and critics up and down the land.
It went through three printings in under a year and won the Saltire First Book Award. 'Best book about Aberdeen since Grassic Gibbon's Grey Granite,' said Duncan McLean.
We're going to serialise it here, starting with sections from the print version free every day from xxxxxxxxxxxxx, with the audiobook kicking in on yyyyyyyyyyyyy, when you'll have a chance to listen to the first chapter free during the festive season.
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Amande's Bed is set in 1956, when the main character, young Peem is 10 years old. He was conceived by his parents, Andy and Madge, in those joyous weeks after the end of World War Two.
They live in an Aberdeen tenement, close to the Beach, Pittodrie and the City Hospital.
Times are hard, rationing of food has just ended, but every penny has to be carefully counted. Madge is full-time looking after her family of four, while Andy works as a maintenance electrician at the SAI fertiliser factory next to the Gasworks.