SOLDIER BOY

For Scottie and his mates it's been a year of dead-end jobs and killing time. With his girlfriend making a go of a career, Scottie comes to a decision that will change his life forever - to join the army.

    His job will carry him from the sink estate of his birth to a land that is foreign in every conceivable way. And it will bring him home across thousands of miles to face the future and the past, a stranger with a secret, and ultimately lead to a confrontation with an awful, undeniable truth.  

'A soldier's tale that delivers a late and startling ricochet' - Boyd Tonkin