For the Love of Willie
Agnes Owens author Heather Parry editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Birlinn General
Publishing:7th May '26
£8.09 was £8.99
This title is due to be published on 7th May, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
Peggy is turning a dark girlhood romance into a novel and is trying to get her fellow inmate at the mental hospital, known as the Duchess, to read the manuscript. Frankly the duchess would prefer a Mills and Boon, but her friend’s wartime tragi-comedy soon gets a grip on her imagination.
For the Love of Willie is a compassionate look at wartime pregnancy and teenage predicaments through the eyes of Peggy, first as a shy sixteen year-old in love and later as an inmate in a psychiatric hospital.
Published to celebrate Agnes Owens' centenary year in 2026.
'I cannot wait for a new generation of readers to re-discover the work of Agnes Owens'
-- Douglas Stewart'Agnes Owens is part of a Golden Age in Scottish literature'
* Guardian *'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 SISBN: 9781846977589
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 10mm
Weight: 160g
160 pages
Centenary Edition