In Memoriam Book Launch: Already, Too Late by Carl MacDougall
Luath Press alongside his family and Alan Riach are posthumously launching Carl MacDougall's boyhood memoir, Already, Too Late, completed shortly before his untimely death in April 2023.
About In Memoriam Book Launch: Already, Too Late by Carl MacDougall
Carl MacDougall was one of Scotland's finest writers – a novelist, journalist, editor, reviewer and songwriter, and writer and presenter of two acclaimed BBC TV series, Writing Scotland and Scots: The Language of the People.
'a hero of mine... a great storyteller' – BILLY CONNOLLY
To celebrate his profound legacy, Luath Press alongside his family and Alan Riach are posthumously launching his latest book, Already, Too Late: a boyhood memoir, a deeply personal reflection on his childhood, completed shortly before his untimely death in April 2023.
This beautifully-written memoir takes us through MacDougall’s early years, both in and out of care in Fife and then in industrial Glasgow.
Within this world, now teetering on the brink of our collective memory, sits a single-parent household of German descent; money is tight, trauma roams free and tragedy comes calling again and again.
Through a powerful mosaic of stories, MacDougall strips away all rose-tinted sentimentality to create a vivid account of heart-break, dissociation and loss.
Already, Too Late is the early life of an outsider looking in, a changeling child, displaced, alone, and – in his own grandmother’s words – ‘no right’. Because for some, even the very beginning is already too late.
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