Pope and Her Lady

'An extraordinary novella, about a lesbian couple, Mady and Pope, habitu歋s of Glasgow's grim streets. Mady has been viciously murdered. Pope is in police custody, the lone suspect. In another writer's hands, this stock situation might have yielded a book as ordinary in its pursuits as a pedestrian TV drama. But Rooke pours out his tale in Glasgow's very own amazing street slang, empowering Mady and Pope - and a wide range of other misfits - with a strange, startling beauty'--Publisher description.