ANOTHER TIME ANOTHER PLACE

Jessie Kesson is the hidden treasure of 20th century Scottish fiction. In three short novels, and a collection of stories, she explores the dreams, hopes and ambitions of women faced with the limitations of a society which expects them to submit. Pitting education against ignorance, exoticism against isolation, sensuality against repression, and hope against poverty, Kesson draws on her own extraordinary life, which began in the workhouse and the orphanage, in prose which was admired by peers such as Norman MacCaig and Compton Mackenzie.