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The Breadmakers Saga
Location(s): Glasgow
Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
Era(s): First half of the 20th Century
The Breadmaker’s Saga follows the story of a Glasgow working class community living through the dark days of the Depression and the Second World War. Clydend, McNair’s Bakery and the surrounding tenements, are all vividly and absorbingly depicted, as are the lives and loves of people like Catriona, a young woman trying to cope with an overbearing husband: the foreman baker Baldy Fowler and his tragic wife, Sarah: Alec Jackson, the philandering insurance salesman: and a host of other colourful characters, who face up to the ordinary challenges of life and the extraordinary challenges of war with honesty, optimism and hope.
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