Etta finds life hard as a mill girl in 1820 Greenock but marriage doesnt make her prospects any brighter. A time of strife in the towns and The Highland Clearances.

Mima entered the world in the midst of a disaster -- a suitable prologue to the life that followed.

but Mima was a survivor.

Follow her from the Glasgow Slums of the 1920s through the Depression Years and WWII to the Glasgow high rise flats of the 1990s.

Told with Jennys blend of sympathetic realism and gentle humour.