The Glasgow Coma ScaleWhen Lynne offers money to a homeless man on Glasgow's Sauchiehall Street she is shocked to recognise Angus her former art tutor from college. Lynne once revered him even dreamed of becoming an artist under his tutelage. Now she works as a supervisor at an insurance call centre. And as for Angus he has fallen on even harder times . . . She insists on inviting him to stay at her flat but just as Angus doesn't go out of his way to explain the reasons

From being labelled nerdy and shy as an undiagnosed child to redefining herself when diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome as an adult

and marrying for the first time just after her seventeenth birthday

Louise remains haunted by guilt over the one night she spent with Ben's friend Eric and refuses to return Eric's love

Today we have businesspeople and government officials who persistently distrust and demonize each other a fortunate swath of society with professional and financial security

From the bestselling author of He Said/She Said and Watch Her Fall

Under the patient and gentle guidance of his grandfather the boy gradually comes to respect the ways of nature and to understand his own place in the world

Jonah finds himself drawn into a dangerous and irrevocable situation

Though he once said he loved her

run-of-the-mill snot

David and Goliath

and even their lives

We have to learn to tolerate emotions and work on them so that they don't inhibit our freedom to think and act