This is a wonderfully colourful & deeply poignant memoir of growing up in a 'single end'
- one room in a Glasgow tenement
- during & immediately after the Second World War. Although young Robert Douglas's life was blighted by the cruel if sporadic presence of his father it was equally blessed by the love of his mother Janet. While the story of their life together is in some ways very sad it is also filled with humorous & happy memories. Night Song of The Last Tram" is a superb evocation of childhood & of a Glasgow of trams & tenements that has long since disappeared."