Goodreads asked Ian Todd:

How do you get inspired to write?

Ian Todd Part biography, part imagination, with a healthy interest in social history. I was brought up in a part of Glasgow (The Towhead) that was steeped in history, but who the city fathers decided was surplus to requirements in the name of progress in the 1960s i.e. The Inner Ring Road network. Before 'The Clearances', the streets catered for a wealth of colourful characters and a way of life that had been in existence for hundreds of years. When I started writing Parly Road, I wanted to capture the human 'senses' of the place as well as the geographic location in the heart of Glasgow.

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