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Mollycoddling the Feckless by Alistair Findlay
Disappointing memoir evades pressing concerns of social work system
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GREAT title, disappointing book.
Alistair Findlay’s irreverent memoirs of a 40-year career as a social worker in Scotland could have been so much better if he had built his discourse around the real-life personal stories of the many clients he encountered from the early 1970s onwards.
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