The Burrell Collection
Author Event - Karen Campbell
- Tickets
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Free - ticket required
- Box office telephone
- Dates and times
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Saturday 31st May 2025
2:00pm
- Age
- 16+ years
- Venue
Meet Gerard. He's twelve, a bright kid, but trouble always follows him. Gerard struggles, and he doesn't always make good decisions. One morning, he makes a terrible one, upending not just his world, but the lives of eldery widow Margaret and bystander Claire. Three strangers, one moment – and nothing is ever the same again.
Heartbreaking, yet brimful of humour and hope, This Bright Life is set in Dennistoun, and is a story about messy lives, second chances and the many hands it takes to build a boy.
Galloway-based Karen Campbell is the author of nine novels. She graduated with distinction from Glasgow University’s Creative Writing Masters, and won an SAC New Writers Award and a Creative Scotland Bursary. Before turning to writing, she was a police officer in Glasgow, then a press officer with Glasgow City Council. She also tutors and mentors in creative writing, and was Writer in Residence at Dumfries & Galloway Council during the Covid pandemic. Karen’s appeared on Radio 4, Radio 3, Radio Scotland and BBC television’s Big Scottish Book Club.
Photo credit: Kim Ayres
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