Glasgow Boys by Margaret McDonald:  

Finlay and Banjo are two rootless kids in care in Glasgow and from a close emotional bond.   Three years later, Banjo is with foster parents and begins to fall in love.  Finlay is left care and is in training at medical school.  He too, falls in love.  As their world collides, the open wounds of the past open up.  

This is certainly a well-written book, with a metronomic structure, but also flashback/flashforward.  However, that can be a little confining and the novel does tend to drag its feet where it could dance.  And the novel’s big reveal, where the two characters finally meet takes place far too late in the novel, leading to a denouement that feels both neat and Panglossian.  

Nevertheless, it reflects the boho and the gadgie.  Plus, it’s nice to see something that is purely of the modern day city, rather than the relflection of what Welsh was doing thirty years ago.  It’s published by Faber and Faber on May 2nd and I thank them for a review copy.