On The Milk

Hachette Books Scotland, 2009 Set in Dundee in 1962, this evocative and very funny memoir traces Willie Robertson’s experiences from his first day as a milk laddie on the back of ‘Fletcher’s Dairies’ delivery lorry, through to earning the exalted rank of journeyman deliverer; before finally leaving the warmth and comfort of the pack to creep tentatively into the big boys’ world of mods, rockers, sex, teenage rebellion and proper full time work. It’s a story which could equally be told about boys in Glasgow, Aberdeen, Birmingham, London, or any other town in Britain at the time; because it reflects all the optimism, innocence and harshness that shaped the lives of adolescent boys in working class Britain in the early sixties; when the Lone Ranger fired silver bullets and the local beat bobby gave you a hard clout around the ear when you got out of hand.