Publisher's Synopsis
'Samuel' tells the story of the day to day life of what it was like to live in Scotland's capital during the decades of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s until the author leaves the city in 1996 to begin a new family life in the Highlands. The book is based on extracts from the author's diaries and journals which were never intended for publication and instead only as a personal keepsake recording the days and the weeks and the years and then the decades - after all who might ever be interested in the day to day life of an ordinary Edinburgher? However with the passage of time - it's almost half a century since the schoolboy entries were written in 1971 - they now offer a certain period charm capturing day to day life in the capital and the social and cultural life of one ordinary Edinburgh family during the late twentieth century. Everything changes but the cyclical rhythms of the seasons are a constant and of course much of the city remains the same and is instantly recognisable today.
