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Ma Mum and William Wordsworth is a multi-layered novel about grief and making a way as a young person when a parent dies and
caregiving roles shift. It’s also a story rooted deeply in its setting in
Scotland, first in Lanarkshire and then in Glasgow. The novel is written
in, mainly, Lanarkshire dialect. The book is about loss of a parent in a large
working- class family. The novel’s themes are built around how friendship and
community, along with imagination and creativity, can help bereaved young people.
The book does not shy away from hardships and is not sentimental, but is
grounded in the point of view of Erin, a teenager, who tries to find her own language to express how she feels about loss. There is also a lot of humour in
the story. A novel about finding a voice in your own language, whatever that may be.
