The theme of this Scottish Catholic novel is the collision of the old Scotland of municipal socialism and the new. That collision is dramatized in the story of the narrator's grandfather, an ambitious but misguided social improver.
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O'Hagan's "The Missing" was shortlisted for the "Esquire"/Waterstone's Award, the Saltire First Book Award, and the McVitie's prize for Scottish Writer of the Year.
