Thomson Davis was born in
Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland, and was three years old when her family moved to
Balornock, a district in the city of
Glasgow. Brought up in the tenements of
Springburn, she had an early ambition to be a writer, and after leaving school she worked at various short-term jobs while submitting her stories to magazines. In 1951 she had a short-lived marriage and had a son, and in 1958 she married a second time, moving to
Bearsden. In 1972, her first novel,
The Breadmakers, was published by
Allison and Busby, and was described by the
Daily Express as a
Glaswegian Coronation Street. It was followed in 1973 by
A Baby Might Be Crying and
A Sort of Peace, forming a trilogy known to as
The Breadmakers Saga. She went on to be the author of more than 20 novels, and
The Breadmakers Saga and
Rag Woman, Rich Woman (1987) were adapted for the stage. Thomson Davis was
Honorary President of the Strathkelvin Writers' Group. ==Selected works==