Kieron Smith, boy Format:Paperback searching for the geographical and

searching for the geographical and the personal and discovering in the process a kind of truth and courageous expression in his work which is unique and transforming

Originally published in West Germany in 1980

In hiding as a lady’s companion in one of the city’s suburbs

now stubborn

Stafford Ashani Harrison and Mustapha Matura

Kieron Smith, boy Format:Paperback searching for the geographical andRejected by his brother and largely ignored by his parents, Kieron Smith finds comfort and endless stories in the home of his much loved grandparents. But when his family move to a new housing scheme on the outskirts of Glasgow, a world away from the close community of the tenements, Kieron struggles to find a way to adapt to his new life. Kieron Smith, boy is a brilliant evocation of an urban childhood. Capturing the joys, frustrations, injustices,