Avram Escovitz dreams of playing football for Celtic, but war intervenes. He leaves the tightly knit Jewish community in the Gorbals in Glasgow to work as a credit draper, peddling goods on credit to the crofters and villagers of the West Highlands. This very original debut novel is a book about a stranger in a strange land, but also about whisky, football and waterproof clothing. And romance across the cultural divide.