My Scottish Bookshelf
Posted September 17, 2010 1:03 pm by Andrew Martin | Permalink
Cynthia Rogerson’s latest novel I love you, goodbye is a charming tale of love and marriage set in Evanton, near Dingwall. Four people tell the story through their monologues– a marriage counsellor, secure in her apricot office, less secure with her teacher husband; one of her clients, a dissatisfied wife, not long up from the temptations of Leith ; her teenage boy, looking for love ; a Polish philosophy lecturer now making pizzas. All four are closely connected of course, and it is a wise, sweet (bittersweet in fact) book. As well as being a writer Cynthia Rogerson finds time to be one of the key people at Moniack Mhor, the Arvon Foundation’s Scottish centre north of Inverness. Anyone needing that extra encouragement to write should check out the website, and plan for a course next year! (Photograph from Black & White Publishing)