Imprint:
[Aberdeen] : Lumphanan Press, 2023.
Collation:
168 pages ; 20 cm.
Contents:
New boots - - The big house - - Bedtime - - Visitors - - Babbie-Ann - - A present for Dolly - - The search - - Changes at the big house - - Leaving - - Dolly - - Gypsies - - Winfield - - Cruden Bay - - The drink - - Baiting and birthing - - Collieston - - The wedding - - A song at Christmas - - Daisy - - Johnny - - Agnes and Geordie - - Smugglers - - The litte boat - - Davie - - White horses - - Harvest - - Sandy helps out - - Lizzie moves out - - Connon - - The will - - Oldcastle - - The new arrival - - Home - early days - - St. Olaf's Day - - A visit from Janet - - The first year - - A sister - - Celebration - - The great storm - - Leaving.
Summary:
Set in the late nineteenth century, this fact-based novel brings to life the dramas of ordinary people. It celebrates the indomitable spirit, and the humour, that sees them through the vagaries of wresting a livelihood from the unpredictable sea. A country-bred girl enters this world and learns to adapt - to heed the superstitions, to work like the others from dawn to dusk, and to live with the ever-present fear, shared by the women, that her husband may be lost at sea.
ISBN:
9798853487192 (pbk)
Bookmark Link:
https://aberdeencity.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/KIDS/BIBENQ?BRN=3756476
