Wee White Blossom

LESLEY RIDDOCH is an award-winning broadcaster, writer and journalist. She writes weekly columns for The Scotsman and Sunday Post and is a regular contributor to The Guardian, Newsnight Scotland, Scotland Tonight and Any Questions. She is founder and Director of Nordic Horizons, a policy group that brings Nordic experts to the Scottish Parliament.Lesley presented You and Yours on BBC Radio 4, The Midnight Hour on BBC 2 and The People’s Parliament and Powerhouse on Channel 4. She founded the Scottish feminist magazine Harpies and Quines, won two Sony awards for her daily Radio Scotland show and edited The Scotswoman – a 1995 edition of The Scots man written and edited by its female staff. She lives in Fife and is married to an Englishman who grew up in Canada.

The most influential, passionate and constructive book to appear during the referendum campaign. Blossom seized readers because it argued for independence as means to an end – restoring control over their own lives to Scottish communities so disempowered by top-down authority that they had no real experience of democracy. - NEAL ASCHERSONA brilliant, moving, well written, informative, important and valuable piece of work. - ELAINE C SMITHNot so much an intervention in the independence debate as a heartfelt manifesto for a better democracy. - ESTHER BREITENBACH, Scotsman