![]() Over the last few weeks, Sara has been speaking with journalists, agreeing to interviews she has rarely given over the last three decades. This week, a different book lands in her hands, though one of the main characters remains the same.ĭecades have passed, but Sara has now taken the step to commit her own personal account of marriage to and divorce from Boyle, who is now a millionaire writer and artist with mansions in Antibes and Marrakech. Her first interest in Jimmy Boyle was sparked after she bought his own book on a whim at Inverness railway station to give her something to read on the train, and she was so taken with it that she wrote to him, asking to see him. In a way, Sara's story begins and ends with a book. Despite the differences in our backgrounds and circumstances, we understood each other." I was swept away on the stream of his words, and it seemed we instantly connected. He spoke rapidly in a strong Glasgow accent. He was physically smaller than I had expected, but his compact physique was bursting with physical strength and energy. Sara was the public-schooled English psychiatrist, who, even in her 20's says she had "an interest in learning about people from the inside".īut, as she describes that first meeting in her newly published book: "His face was fresh and alive. Jimmy was the man labelled "Scotland's most violent criminal", the gangster who had fought and slashed his way through the streets of Glasgow and into a prison cell, serving a life sentence for murder. She certainly hadn't expected to fall in love. If Sara had been expecting anything, it wasn't this. On a table he had set out what he called a "Gorbals salad" for them both, complete with a fresh loaf of bread he had baked himself. Jimmy was there, standing next to his bed, dressed in his denim dungarees and prepared for lunch. ![]() It was the late 1970's, and the prison cell he welcomed her into was decorated with green floral print wallpaper with matching curtains framing a small barred window. Sara Trevelyan was a young medical graduate when she first met Jimmy Boyle, the man who would become her husband.
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