Publisher's Synopsis
"Anne Donovan is outstanding...quite marvellous. I was very, very impressed." Melvyn Bragg "Donovan has such a skill with language that these stories sing off the page. Her use of dialect gives these ordinary people their own voice." THE BIG ISSUE IN SCOTLAND Anne Marie's Da, a Glaswegian painter and decorator, has always been game for a laugh. So when he first takes up meditation at the Buddhist Centre, no one takes him seriously, especially when his pursuit of the new Lama ends in a trip round the Carmunnock bypass. But as Jimmy becomes more involved in a search for the spiritual, his beliefs start to come into conflict with the needs of his wife, Liz. Cracks appear in their apparently happy family life, and the ensuing events change the lives of each family member. With seamless grace and astonishing honesty, Buddha Da treats serious themes with humour and its characters with humanity.
