And the reader is plunged into the austerity of post-war Scotland. Mike is now middle-aged and as he looks at all these photographs he sees his own childhood. And we all know that a picture is worth a thousand words. And what his son is now in charge of are black and white photographs charting a social history at that time. His father is generally acknowledged as the better of the two at the craft he simply had the knack. We see the fictional character, photographer Mike Pendreich collating many, many photographs which his late father took with his trusty camera. Robertson takes in politics, history, the economy, social life and society: basically a rich tapestry of Scottish life at the time. Summary: This detailed mix of fact and fiction covers fifty years of Scotland in the latter half of the 20th century.
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