Loving Alasdair

The Author is a trained nurse and her medical knowledge and caring disposition helped form the bedrock of the relationship. It was a relationship that began in the early 1980s when May Hooper and Alasdair Gray met at a party in the West End of Glasgow and when Alasdair Gray, clearly attracted by May Hooper's striking good looks, asked if he could draw or paint her. At a following portrait session the two realised that they enjoyed each other's company, that this was more than just an artist/model relationship and the friendship took off and was to last for 39 years until Alasdair Gray's death in 2019.

May Hooper. Paperback. First published 2024. Voices. 978-1-90-473766-7