Chapter Two
The Turn Coat
Use your exits well; sometimes it is all you have.
Lochgilphead is not the sort of place that attracts visitors; in fact, there are usually only two reasons why anyone visits Lochgilphead – to spend time with relatives and gloat, or because they were offered a job, and didn’t investigate before they accepted. Lochgilphead has a Co-op, a newsagent’s, a couple of coffee shops, several pubs, and Rodger’s bookshop called The Read and be Thankful.
A name inspired by The Rest and be Thankful, a remote place at the end of a remote road through Glen Croe in Scotland; a place where, in the past, travellers on horseback or in a carriage would stop and look at the view to- ‘rest and be thankful’; and a place where we stayed in a campervan on our first night together and
