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Longlisted for the 2022 Highland Book Prize

Cynthia's mother is dying. Often.

Travelling between her home in Scotland and California, as she spends time at her mother's bedside Cynthia recalls her youthful adventures: living in a squat, train-hopping, hitchhiking and all the other things she never told her mother.

'A master of fresh and sparky writing.' The Guardian

Auteur

Cynthia Rogerson (aka Addison Jones) grew up in California. She is the author of five novels and a collection of short stories. She won the V.S.Pritchett Prize in 2008, and her short stories have been widely broadcast and anthologised. I Love You Goodbye was shortlisted for Best Scottish Novel in 2011. She holds a RLF Fellowship and is the chair of Moniack Mhor Writers' Centre. Her most recent novel, Wait for Me, Jack was published by Sandstone Press in 2017.

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Cynthia's mother is dying. Often.
Travelling between her home in Scotland and California, as she spends time at her mother's bedside.
Cynthia recalls her youthful adventures: living in a squat, train-hopping, hitchhiking and all the other things she never told her mother.