Jeff Torrington
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Jeff Torrington (31 December 1935 – 11 May 2008) was a novelist from Glasgow in Scotland.
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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