Paper Cup Karen Campbell
Paperback published by Canongate 29th June 2023
ISBN 9781838855109
Everyone deserves a second chance. You just have to take the first step.
Rocked by a terrible accident, homeless Kelly needs to escape the streets of Glasgow. Maybe she doesn’t believe in serendipity, but a rare moment of kindness and a lost ring conspire to call her home, returning to the small town she fled to many years ago.
MY REVIEW
Today I’m shouting very loudly, Paper Cup is a must read! It’s truly heartbreaking about a homeless woman.
I will never forget my grandson gave his pocket money to a homeless person, that kindness brought tears to my eyes.
Paper cup is absolutely heart wrenching it brought tears to my eyes and heartache for Kelly in this fiction story , and for all that are homeless, with not much to eat or drink, sleeping in the cold bleak nights on the streets.
Next time you see a homeless person on the street it would be a kind thing to spare them something to eat and drink like a hot sausage roll or a paper cup of tea.
This story is about Kelly, who had once been in jail, that lives in Glasgow who is now homeless, begging on the streets for food.
One evening a woman on a hen night gives Kelly some money, and Kelly finds her ring.
Kelly meets another homeless pregnant lady who only has one week to left before her baby is born and then what will she do, surely they don’t expect her to be living on the streets with her baby.
After seeing a man in an accident, and saving his life, Kelly has had enough of staying within that area and gets a lift with a lorry driver, to try to find the young lady who is getting married soon that will need her ring back.
This is a heartbreaking story as we follow Kelly’s footsteps as she make a long journey with a dog that she has rescued, who trek mile’s upon mile’s together, to return the ring to woman who is getting married.
After reading this story it will leave a pain in your heart, where you will see homeless people in a different way, after all it’s not no one’s fault when someone is homeless.
In my eyes the government don’t do enough to help our own people who sleep rough in shop doorways, without out any proper hot food and hot drinks.
Honestly Paper Cup is a must buy, must read!
My special thanks to Canongate for sending me this brilliant page turning novel to read and review.
About author Karen Campbell
Born in Paisley (a proud ‘buddy’ because that’s where the southside’s maternity hospital was then…) Karen was brought up in Glasgow, Scotland. On leaving school, she attended Glasgow University, where she did an MA in English, Drama & French, then, as you do, joined Strathclyde Police as a uniformed police constable.
Karen served in Glasgow’s ‘A’ Division, right in the heart of Scotland’s biggest city – and where much of her first novel, The Twilight Time, is set. Karen and the polis parted company amicably five and a half years later, on the birth of her first child. She then took a brief career break to bring up her family. Two toddlers later, she went to work for Glasgow City Council, ending up as a media officer in the Press Office, before going on to edit the Council’s staff magazines and other publications. She claims to have invented the phrase ‘it wisny the cooncil’s fault’ during this period.
While being creative at the City Chambers, Karen was also accepted for Glasgow University’s renowned Creative Writing Masters degree, and began writing in earnest, with several short stories published in various magazines and anthologies. The Twilight Time evolved from some of these early pieces, with Karen completing her first draft of the book as part of her final portfolio. In 2002 she was awarded a Scottish Arts Council New Writer’s Bursary, before graduating with an MLitt (Distinction) in 2003. In 2009, Karen won Best New Scottish Writer at the Scottish Variety Awards. In 2010, After the Fire was chosen as a Scottish Summer Read, while Shadowplay was shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger. In 2013, her fifth novel This Is Where I Am was selected as a BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime, and in 2015 Karen was awarded a Creative Scotland Artist’s Bursary for research into The Sound of the Hours, set in Tuscany in the second World War. Karen was Writer in Residence at Dumfries & Galloway Council in 2021, documenting how Council staff responded to the pandemic.
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