Publisher's Synopsis
Max Scratchmann was born the son of a Dundee jute wallah and spent the first six years of his life in India before being taken 'home' to Scotland in the bitter winter of 1963. In 'Scotland for Beginners' he tells the often painful, but very funny, story of growing up in the bleak grey-harled bungalows of Dundee's newly-built suburbs and learning to adapt to his native land in an era when the very fabric of the nation was changing.