Field Of Blood
When Brian Wilcox is found brutally battered to death next to a suburban railway line in Glasgow, it is assumed that the toddler is the victim of a vicious sexual predator. Instead the police are led to the doors of two eleven-year old boys. Fresh from school Paddy Meehan has just started work on the Scottish Daily News. etermined to emulate her heroes and to be an investigative journalist, she also wants to be financially independent, and to have her own career. But her collegues, hard-drinking chauvanists to a man, believe a woman's place is to be in a home, and preferably in the bedroom. Paddy's family also find her aspirations threatening.All they want is for her to get married to her fiance, Sean, and have children of her own. Then Paddy discovers that one of the boys charged with the murder of Baby Brian is Sean's cousin, Callum. Soon Callum's name is all over the News, and her family believe she is to blame. Shunned by Sean and by those closest to her, Paddy finds herself dangerously alone . . . Set is Glasgow in 1981, a time of political betrayal that saw hunger strikes, riots and unemployment decimate the old industrial heartlands, THE FEILD OF BLOOD is the firs
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When Brian Wilcox is found brutally battered to death next to a suburban railway line in Glasgow, it is assumed that the toddler is the victim of a vicious sexual predator. Instead the police are led to the doors of two eleven-year old boys. Fresh from school Paddy Meehan has just started work on the Scottish Daily News. etermined to emulate her heroes and to be an investigative journalist, she also wants to be financially independent, and to have her own career. But her collegues, hard-drinking chauvanists to a man, believe a woman's place is to be in a home, and preferably in the bedroom. Paddy's family also find her aspirations threatening.All they want is for her to get married to her fiance, Sean, and have children of her own. Then Paddy discovers that one of the boys charged with the murder of Baby Brian is Sean's cousin, Callum. Soon Callum's name is all over the News, and her family believe she is to blame. Shunned by Sean and by those closest to her, Paddy finds herself dangerously alone . . . Set is Glasgow in 1981, a time of political betrayal that saw hunger strikes, riots and unemployment decimate the old industrial heartlands, THE FEILD OF BLOOD is the firs
