Evelyn Hood Omnibus: "Looking After Your Own", "McAdam's Women" by Evelyn Hood
LOOKING AFTER YOUR OWN In wartime Scotland life must go on, and nowhere more so than in the tenement block in Glen Street, a building teeming with the tales and troubles of its inhabitants. Chloe McCosh spends her days earning a weekly wage at Cochran's emporium, and her evenings immersed in the dance band her parents run. It is not the music that interests Chloe, though, but young trumpeter Dennis Morgan. And even though she starts seeing the good-looking Charlie Hepburn, it is Dennis her heart cannot forget. McADAM'S WOMAN The day her husband Kenneth died, Isla McAdam's life changed dramatically, irrevocably - and shockingly. Kenneth, twenty years her senior, has left her with two children, no money, and a shameful legacy. For just as Isla knew little about his business, she knew nothing at all about his other life - with another wife, another family, another existence...