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“... And I’m not really supposed to sit down at all,’ said the young man. ‘Not on this kind of a job.’ ‘What kind is it?’ asked the girl who’d been sitting for some time on a seat in the gallery watching her small son stumping around close to the wall of pictures. Now and then he bent to examine the look of his boots on the parquet pattern of the floor ...”

“... of prison into the normal world of colour makes a telling final effect. A substantial part of Elspeth Davie’s Coming to light is not so much modern story as historical infilling. The novel loosely groups a number of Edinburgh characters round a disturbed adolescent and his art teacher, but it often digresses into episodes from and explanations of ...”