Lumpy Porridge and Other Scottish Memories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781516944866)

Joyce D'Auria, nee Milne was born and raised in Scotland and emigrated to the USA after graduating from Glasgow Royal Infirmary Nursing School. The short stories cover the adventures of a stranger in a strange land, and travelling back to the homeland to nourish her roots. Included are childhood memories in Lanarkshire, Scotland and tales told by her grandfather, some are even true. She graduated from Glasgow Royal Infirmary Nursing School then immigrated to the United States. After raising her daughter, Linda, she earned a counselling degree at St. Lawrence University in New York and subsequently practiced as a therapist in Florida. Her other books are historical novels about Scotland: My Blood is Royal is about coming of age of a highland girl evicted during the "clearances." Billy Boy, Caught Between the Orange and the Green is a coming of age of a lowland boy with a catholic mother and protestant father in a town where safety lies in belonging to one camp or the other. Joyce lives in Florida with her husband Paul and her cat, Caramella.