-2014 Woman of the Year Community Award Winner-
Madalena Cocozza
BOOKS
Where No Nightingales Sing
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Where No Nightingales Sing is at its heart a warm family story set against the events of the 20th Century, principally World War II. Italy’s decision to side with Germany led to discrimination and internment for Scots/Italians; with women and children suffered six years of bullying, physical attacks and humiliation, especially after the bombing raids in Calton and Clydebank.
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The book holds a mirror up to social history issues like the aspirations of women and girls, class division, fear of poverty and unemployment, the desolation of being ‘different’ and the tyranny of family secrets.
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Available as either printed copy or in PDF format for e-book readers.
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An Abbyish in the Sky
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Madalena is currently working on a novel, An Abbyish in the Sky, about the life of her disabled son, Stephen, who died in 1999.
For Love and Liberty
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A major drama about the life of Robert Burns, “For love and Liberty” is an exciting, rollicking, and yet tender drama with incidental music that makes extensive use of Burns’s own poetry lyrics.
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It portrays the colourful and eventful life of Robert Burns, Scotland’s national bard and will be a major production following in the footsteps of “Braveheart” and “Rob Roy”. It will be developed for television and will satisfy a worldwide demand for knowledge about what drove and influenced this low-born talented young man to rise to the heights of national and international fame, only to fall to illness and poverty.