Sam McColl

Sam McColl was born to a family hushed by violence. At the age of twelve she and her sister were orphaned. She modelled in London for several years working with Lichfield, Brian Duffy and other big names of the era. But stability was illusive and it was to be many years before she understood that no child is responsible for a parent’s rage, went into therapy and got her own life on track. She began working with vulnerable young people, who, unable to face the desolation of their pasts had turned to drugs or self-harm for consolation.
The Scottish Arts Council awarded Sam a New Writers Bursary. Call Billy 07899 232007 was published in 2018. Her literary agent is Futerman Rose Associates who are now submitting her second novel Call Abi to publishers.
Her work in progress is told by Batuk: ‘I sometimes wonder what it was about him that so held us. Certainly he didn’t crave it. I think it had something to do with a kind of wild courage, the kind of courage and recklessness you find in war heroes.’ It is, beyond all the heartbreak, madness and familial misunderstanding, an affecting story about love.