Jeff Torrington

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Jeff Torrington (born in Glasgow in 1935) is a Scottish novelist.

His novels draw on the changing face of modern Scotland. Swing Hammer Swing (1992) was situated in the demolition of the old Gorbals and The Devil's Carousel (1998) drew on the decline of a fictionalised version of the Rootes/Chrysler car plant at Linwood.

Swing Hammer Swing was Whitbread Book of the Year in 1992.

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