The Tobacconist

'Tender and elegiac . . . Devastating . . . Complex, ambitious and moving' Times Literary Supplement'Essential reading for the early years of the twenty-first century' Scotland on Sunday'Told with a dry wit that enhances, rather than disguises, the sadness of its story, The Tobacconist is a touching miniature of an ordinary life irrevocably altered by the larger forces of history' Sunday Times