I PUT A SPELL ON YOU

n this exquisite, haunting book, John Burnside describes his coming of age from the industrial misery of Cowdenbeath and Corby to th e new world of Cambridge. This is a memoir of romance of lost love and the love of being lost darkened by threat, illuminated by glamour.The old Scots word glamour means magical charm, and the first time he was played I Put a Spell on You, John Burnside thou ght he had never heard a more beautiful song it was an enchantment, a fascination that would turn to obsession. Implicit in the so ng were all t...[Read more]