Rob Angus is tied to the Scottish village of Thrums by duty to a small child; when that tie is broken he goes out into the world, first to a provincial newspaper and then to Fleet Street. Barrie’s novel mixes sharp, comic sketches of journalism and literary life with a love story in which Rob meets the one woman.
An early Barrie novel, drawing on his own years as a young Scots journalist in London. Download the free EPUB.