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2000s: Welcome to Garnethill and Denise Mina’s Glasgow..
Garnethill
What you need to know before your trail
Maureen O’Donnell is a psychiatric patient and survivor of sexual abuse. She’s not what you would call one of life’s lukcy people. She’s also stuck in a dead-end job and having a secretive relationship with Douglas, a shady therapist. One morning however, she is horrified to find him in her living room – his throat slit.
Maureen with her drinking habit and her alcoholic mother is soon a suspect. The police won’t tell her anything about Douglas’ death.
So, Maureen who begins to doubt her own version of events starts to retrace Douglas’ desperate last days and picks up a horrifying trail of rape, deception and suppressed scandal at a local psychiatric hospital where she herself had been an inmate….
Travel Guide
Garnethill
This is a residential area of the city and the hill from which it takes its name is the highest in the city. There are some popular landmarks in this part of town too – The Tenement House is 4-room flat that provide an insight into the everyday lifestyles of the early 20th-century. Maureen could well live in a similar place.
Cathedral Street
You may not be able to walk down here – put on your wings and fly down!
Cathedral street is a wind tunnel. The tall office buildings prevent cross breezes from tempering the eastern wind as it rolls down the hill. gathering nippy momentum as it crosses the graveyard and sweeps down the broad street.
High Street
There’s lots of shops and pizza places here but thankfully not a Pizza Pie “A badly Americanised restaurant destined for insolvency from the first”
Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: Garnethill
Author/Guide:Denise Mina Destination: Glasgow Departure Time: 2000s
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