Eyes of Rain and Ragged Dreams: Coming of Age in Edinburgh - Paperback

by Michael Elcock (Author)

Michael Elcock's fictionalised memoir 'Eyes of Rain and Ragged Dreams' is a rich coming of age work set in Edinburgh in the 1960's. Told with an entertaining blend of humour and vivid observation, the story shows youth pulled in diferent ways by a rigid educational system and the burgeoning freedom of the times. Dunphy, the son of a diplomat, and Grimmett, who comes from a broken home, develop an unlikely friendship at a top private school. Dunphy and Grimmett are set up by absent & naïve parents in a flat above a brothel. Their adventures take them from poaching trout to gambling dens and a brush with the law. Two of their friends die through suicide, and as an indirect result of one of those deaths Grimmett begins to learn about love. Available also as an Audiobook.

Author Biography

Michael Elcock was born in Forres, Scotland, and grew up in Edinburgh and West Africa. He emigrated to Canada when he was twenty-one and worked in pulp mills, as a tree faller, on west coast fishing boats, and as a ski instructor-earning along the way a B.A. and M. Ed degree at the University of Victoria. Since then he has travelled widely, and worked and lived in Canada, the US, Spain and Scotland. He has published many articles in periodicals, newspapers and magazines in Canada and the UK, two works of non-fiction-'A Perfectly Beautiful Place' and 'Writing on Stone'-and a novel, 'The Gate'.