A Petrol Scented Spring

Arabella Scott, suffragette and hunger striker, is held in solitary confinement for five weeks, force-fed by the prison doctor, Hugh Ferguson Watson. Two years later, his wife, Donella, is trapped in a sexless marriage with a man haunted by the past. What happened between the doctor and his prisoner patient? Fifty years on, Donella is still trying to find out. A Petrol Scented Spring is a riveting novel of repression, jealousy and love, and the struggle for women’s emancipation.

Reviews of A Petrol Scented Spring

'Intensely observant and articulate, packed with life.' John Le Carre 'Ajay Close makes you glad to be alive and living now.' Fay Weldon 'Holds a deserved place in the Pantheon of Scotland's exciting contemporary novelists.' Val McDermid