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A Gift from the Gallowgate: An Autobiography First Edition
Author(s): Doris Davidson (Author)
- Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
- Publication Date: 4 Oct. 2004
- Edition: First Edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 288 pages
- ISBN-10: 1841583014
- ISBN-13: 9781841583013
Book Description
This is the extraordinary story of a remarkable woman. Doris Davidson was born in Aberdeen in 1922, the daughter of a master butcher and country lass. Her idyllic childhood was shattered in 1934 with the death of her father, after which, in order to make ends meet, her mother was forced to take in lodgers. In part due to her father’s sudden death, Doris left school at fifteen and went to work in an office, gradually rising through the ranks until she became book-keeper. Marriage to an officer in the Merchant Navy followed in 1942, then divorce, then her second marriage. Her life took the first of two major changes in direction at the age of 41, when she went back to college to study for O and A levels, followed by three years at Teacher Training College. In 1967 she became a primary school teacher, and subsequently taught in schools in Aberdeen until she retired in 1982. Not content with a quiet retirement Doris embarked on a new ‘career’ and became a writer, publishing her first work in 1990. Eight books later (and another one nearly finished), she is one of the country’s best-loved romantic novelists and has sold well in excess of 200,000 copies of her books.
Editorial Reviews
Review
The Brow of the Gallowgate ‘Absorbing and fascinating’ – Christine Marion Fraser The Road to Rowanbrae ‘Doris Davidson has come up trumps … engrossing’ – Aberdeen Leopard Time Shall Reap Her story is compelling … readers will love it’ – Aberdeen Evening Express The Three Kings ‘It’s a dismal day that doesn’t include a dose of Doris’ – Press and Journal
About the Author
Doris Davidson was born in Aberdeen in 1922, the daughter of a master butcher and country lass. In 1967 she became a primary school teacher, and subsequently taught in schools in Aberdeen until she retired in 1982 to become a writer, publishing her first work in 1990. Thirteen novels, one collection of short stories and an acclaimed autobiography – A Gift from the Gallowgate – later she was firmly established as one of the country’s best-loved romantic novelists. Doris died in June 2012.
