'An outstanding novel with a cast of characters so beautifully drawn that turning the last page feels like flitting out of 18 Dalbeattie Street' -- Daily Record 'Pure dead brilliant, so it is... a rare old read for folk that were round and about in the Forties and Fifties' -- Edinburgh Evening News 'Douglas' prose is simple and charming...this novel will appeal to fans of Douglas' previous trips down memory lane' -- Scottish Review of Books 'Whose Turn for the Stairs? echoes the bygone charm and ingrained hardship of growing up at a time when rationing and families living in single end tenements were commonplace, yet laughter never seemed in short supply' -- Evening Times 'It's a braw read!' -- Hexham Courant