One Sweet Moment is a powerful and passionate story set against the colour and squalor of 1820s Edinburgh, evoking life within the gloomy underground vaults of the South Bridge, the brilliantly-lit salons of the New Town and the gatherings of the political radicals of the time.

The poignant tale of the love affair of wealthy medical student Richard Hope and Kate Dunbar, condemned to a life of poverty in an oyster cellar under the South Bridge, plays out against the pageantry and politics of George IV's visit to Edinburgh in 1822 and culminates in the catastrophic Great Fire of Edinburgh of 1824.

'This is writing which is robust and muscular when it needs to be and yet has moments of delicacy and restraint which have even greater impact.' Bill Kirton on www.booksquawk.com

'Incurably romantic ... a big, huge, romantic story ... a totally heart-melting ending.' Clare English, BBC Scotland's Radio Café .