DURING the pandemic, as she was shielding in her parents’ house, Margaret McDonald developed what she calls “touch starvation”, which she…
DURING the pandemic, as she was shielding in her parents’ house, Margaret McDonald developed what she calls “touch starvation”, which she explores in her debut novel, Glasgow Boys.
In a way, the novel feels like a reassuring hand on your shoulder, one there to let you know it is OK to make mistakes – and still, move forward.“I think everybody says that when they finally sort of cross the frontier and publish a book, they always say they’ve always done it, but that is the truth. I studied creative writing in university and throughout my studies, I basically wrote books the whole time,” she says.
After she could start entering the world again, McDonald worked with the NHS as a vaccine assistant. Then, she went on to become an administrator in a health clinic for the NHS. I could put them in an apocalypse and I feel like I would know what they would do, I’ve really grown up with them.”“I think that it just felt natural that you would see both of their perspectives.
“Glasgow Boys is about childhood trauma. But a little note we put on the final copy is that the trauma is never explicitly relived on the page. It’s only told through a character’s own words, so they have control over the narrative, it’s not something being done to them.”“I do think that there is something to be said for women entering the discussion on masculinity. I’m someone who doesn’t really subscribe to the notion of gender.
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