Ginger and Me

I had absolutely no idea what to expect going into this book but having spent a lot of my teen and young adult years in Uddingston, I felt very comfortable with the setting. I found Wendy very interesting and naive and the comical aspect of a lot of things that she encounters was funny at times and......more

Wendy was a joy of a character to get to know. She’s 19 years old and drives a bus for a living. She’s not your ordinary 19 year old young adult though. At the beginning of the book we gather that she struggled mentally when she lost her mum to cancer. But it was just Wendy and her mum. Her dad was......more

I read Ginger and Me for the #ScottishBookClub The eponymous "Me" is the narrator Wendy and we follow her trying to navigate through life after the death of her mother. Wendy is a highly unreliable narrator and as a character sits somewhere on the fringes of society. She struggles sometimes to make co......more