How A Working Mother, Agnes Owens’s novel of the Scottish working class, reveals “the surrealness of everyday life.” | Lit Hub Criticism Caroline Carlson recommends great children’s books coming in November by Neil Sharp
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Megan Nolan on Agnes Owens’s A Working Mother, an Ode to Working Class Scotland