It’s Agnes Owens’s centenary on Sunday. I was thrilled to be able to write about her life and her bitterly funny books for @theobserveruk.bsky.social, talking to her family, her first readers (“What the fuck is this?!”), her first publisher, and fans like Douglas Stuart:
observer.co.uk
The working-class genius of Agnes Owens | The Observer
The Scottish author’s darkly comic novels – written between shifts as a typist and cleaner – are being rediscovered 100 years after her birth
