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L'Ongle
Serpent à plumes, 20.5*13.5 cm, 261 pages
280 pages, Paperback
Published January 9, 2002
About the author
Laura Hird
14 books14 followersLaura Hird is a Scottish novelist and short story writer. She is the only child of June, medical secretary/undiscovered literary/acting genius and Ronnie, ex Allied Brewers storeman/undiscovered artistic genius.
Laura spent her childhood climbing trees, playing with Action Men, being taken to opera/ballet/musicals, learning piano, entering competitions and being subsequently bullied (an ordeal which she now describes as "character-building") After leaving Tynecastle School, aged 16, she embarked on various careers - sales assistant at Rae Macintosh classical record shop, packer of coleslaw, packer of catalogue clothing, seller of velvet shirts at Ingliston Market, dozens of office jobs for civil engineers/chartered surveyors/insurance companies/Waterstones/Scottish Prison Officer "Association/Legal Aid Board" and stints as a Council Tax canvasser, bookies clerkess and boardmarker.
Between 1988-91 she studied at Middlesex Polytechnic and worked, lived and staggered around London, graduating with a BA(Hons) in Studies in Contemporary Writing. After this, she returned to Edinburgh, working again in offices to gain back her reputation as the oldest office junior in Britain, until receiving a Scottish Arts Council Bursary in 1997 to allow her to write full-time.
Laura spent her childhood climbing trees, playing with Action Men, being taken to opera/ballet/musicals, learning piano, entering competitions and being subsequently bullied (an ordeal which she now describes as "character-building") After leaving Tynecastle School, aged 16, she embarked on various careers - sales assistant at Rae Macintosh classical record shop, packer of coleslaw, packer of catalogue clothing, seller of velvet shirts at Ingliston Market, dozens of office jobs for civil engineers/chartered surveyors/insurance companies/Waterstones/Scottish Prison Officer "Association/Legal Aid Board" and stints as a Council Tax canvasser, bookies clerkess and boardmarker.
Between 1988-91 she studied at Middlesex Polytechnic and worked, lived and staggered around London, graduating with a BA(Hons) in Studies in Contemporary Writing. After this, she returned to Edinburgh, working again in offices to gain back her reputation as the oldest office junior in Britain, until receiving a Scottish Arts Council Bursary in 1997 to allow her to write full-time.
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