THE WEE GUIDE TO SCOTTISH WOMEN

Are the best women in the world from Scotland? Having spent most of her life living among them, New York-born journalist Deedee Cuddihy has concluded that they probably are. They're certainly the most 'gallus' as The Wee Guide to Scottish Women clearly demonstrates. (Gallus: a term of praise - mischievous, wild, unmanageable.)

The Wee Guide to Scottish Women features 150 pages of hilarious, touching and sometimes shocking first-hand anecdotes drawn from interviews the author conducted with hundreds of people, and also "borrowings" from newspapers, the internet and other media.

(from a eulogy at a Lanarkshire funeral)