A Working Mother

'Agnes Owens' hallmarks have been a frank irony, a deadpan gothic quality and a down-to-earth insistence on the surreality of most people’s normality'

-- Ali Smith

'Owens pulls no punches. Her understated prose finds acerbic humour in the lives of characters hovering between farce and tragedy'

* Observer *

'Owens is a gift to the Scots urban world'

* The Sunday Times *

'Her black humour and piercing observation bear comparison with the work of Muriel Spark'

* Guardian *

'Owens has a voice no one could imitate, and humour to match . . . Scottish life as lived by those far from the comfort zone, depicted less with loathing than with love'

-- Rosemary Goring

'A hidden treasure of Scottish literature, read this and then read all her other works'

-- Douglas Stuart – Booker Prize-Winning author of SHUGGIE