{"product_id":"scotia-andrew-waldron-9798195994440","title":"Scotia: A Scotsman, an Englishman, and the Search for Home","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat makes a man belong to a place - blood, accent, memory, or the life he survives?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndy MacIver is born into absence. His father dies when he is only two years old, leaving behind a Scottish surname, a grieving mother, and a silence that will shape the rest of his life. Raised on an English estate by Mairi, a fiercely proud Scottish widow, Andy grows up caught between two countries that both claim and reject him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn England, he is the Scottish boy with the difficult name. In Scotland, he is the English-sounding outsider. Everywhere he goes, people try to define him before he can define himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom schoolyards and family gatherings to rugby pitches, martial arts halls, police stations, prisons, and the long shadow of institutional betrayal, \u003ci\u003eScotia\u003c\/i\u003e follows one man's search for identity, dignity, and home. It is a story of class, masculinity, grief, humour, loyalty, and the stubborn refusal to be reduced to someone else's version of the truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt once intimate and sharply observed, \u003ci\u003eScotia\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful novel about the borders we inherit, the names we are given, and the lives we build in the space between who we are and who the world insists we should be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers who enjoy emotionally honest, character-driven fiction rooted in family, place, resilience, and the complicated meaning of belonging.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrew Waldron\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798195994440\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/07\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 410\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.84d","brand":"Andrew Waldron","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48874658201855,"sku":"9798195994440","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/scotia-andrew-waldron-9798195994440","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}