The Kiln

A novel of dreams, disappointments, and detours : “Pitch-perfect . . . excruciatingly funny . . . a beguilingly brilliant portrait of the artist as an adolescent.” — The Sunday Times   Named Scottish Book of the Year by the Saltire Society   Tam Docherty was seventeen in the summer of 1955. With school behind him and a summer job at a brick works, Tom had his whole life before him.   Years later, alone in a rented flat in Edinburgh and lost in memorie