The Short Hello

We encounter 7 year old Mickey on the road in northeastern America; the twenty-something Glaswegian Marina McLoughlin in The Day I Met Sean Connery and Barry Norman's Tie; the lesser-spotted Scottish single male who likes to cook; menopausal Holly stuck in Debenham's lift; Pig and Anna in Tangiers; a yellow sofa that prohibits an electric but impossible relationship; and the intrepid accountant-detective of the London comedy scene, Mr Arnold Brown.

'Maguire writes with a rich vein of dark humour...imaginative insight and an intriguingly eccentric creativity. Her throwaway wit makes for compulsive reading.' Scotland on Sunday