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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 176 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 198x129x12 mm, kaal: 157 g
  • Sari: Agnes Owens Centenary Editions
  • Ilmumisaeg: 07-May-2026
  • Kirjastus: Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
  • ISBN-10: 1846977010
  • ISBN-13: 9781846977015
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 176 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 198x129x12 mm, kaal: 157 g
  • Sari: Agnes Owens Centenary Editions
  • Ilmumisaeg: 07-May-2026
  • Kirjastus: Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
  • ISBN-10: 1846977010
  • ISBN-13: 9781846977015
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A Working Mother is a perfectly crafted novel that will enthral, entertain and surprise in equal measure. Our unreliable narrator, Betty arch, witty, clever is married with children and feels trapped. While her husband, Adam, drinks and bemoans his lot in life, Betty flirts with their best friend Brendan and tries to avoid the roving hands of her new employer. Soon, Betty plots her escape.





Agnes Owens' sharp wit, dark humour and lean prose are expertly displayed in one of her finest achievements.





'Agnes Owens was an absolutely brilliant novelist' Kirstin Innes





'A terrific writer'  Liz Lochhead





'Her black humour and piercing observation bear comparison with the work of Muriel Spark'  Guardian





Published to celebrate Agnes Owens' centenary year in 2026.

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'Agnes Owens' hallmarks have been a frank irony, a deadpan gothic quality and a down-to-earth insistence on the surreality of most peoples normality' -- Ali Smith 'Owens pulls no punches. Her understated prose finds acerbic humour in the lives of characters hovering between farce and tragedy' * Observer * 'Owens is a gift to the Scots urban world' * The Sunday Times * 'Her black humour and piercing observation bear comparison with the work of Muriel Spark' * Guardian * 'Owens has a voice no one could imitate, and humour to match . . . Scottish life as lived by those far from the comfort zone, depicted less with loathing than with love' -- Rosemary Goring 'A hidden treasure of Scottish literature, read this and then read all her other works' -- Douglas Stuart Booker Prize-Winning author of SHUGGIE BAIN

Agnes Owens was always a writer, although for the majority of her life she was preoccupied with making a living and domesticity. She married twice, brought up seven children and variously worked as a typist, cleaner and factory worker. It wasnt until she attended an evening creative writing course that she wrote her first novel Gentlemen of the West, published in 1984 by Polygon to widespread critical acclaim; she would go on to write a further five novellas, including A Working Mother and For the Love of Willie, and three short-story collections. She died in 2014.





Kirstin Innes is an award-winning writer, journalist and arts worker living in the west of Scotland. Her first novel Fishnet won The Guardian's Not The Booker Prize in 2015, and is currently in development for television with STV. Her second novel Scabby Queen was published by 4th Estate in 2020, and she is currently developing a play with the National Theatre of Scotland.