Over the summer I had for the first time in my life become accustomed to having money, and I had made the decision to work weekends during my final year so that it would be the first I didn’t spend in poverty. Andrews and returned to Dundee for my final year of university. It began in the summer of 2007, when I finished working at a hotel in St. It was called Poundland and it was about a year I spent working at a single-price retailer. It was a true story told in the third person, with all the names changed but the same events and surroundings. The first “novel” I ever finished writing wasn’t really a novel at all.