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A compelling Scottish saga by the author of Steelworker's Row and Kirkowen's Daughter
Evicted by mine owner, Hamish McClure, Peggy's mother dies giving birth to her, in a barn, on a bitter winter night in 1880, leaving her father to rear her the best he can... Hamish McClure is furious when his own wife has a baby girl, Elspeth - and not the son and heir he was hoping for. Worse still, she is disfigured by a port-wine stain on her face... Elspeth and Peggy grow up worlds apart, yet both decide to pursue a career in medicine. They find themselves bound by a friendship that not only transcends all barriers, but sustains them through love affairs, heartbreak and war...
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"Heather and Snow" by George MacDonald is a heartwarming and poignant tale that takes readers to the Scottish Hightlands. The book follows Kirsty Barclay as she grows from just a naive and wide-eyed child into a wise and deeply thoughtful woman. Through her life, many things change, but one thing she can count on is the loyalty and friendship of her childhood neighbor, Francis Gordon, a man who sticks with her through thick and thin.
An extensive memoir of the British feminist and social reformer Margaret Ethel MacDonald, née Gladstone (1870-1911) written by her husband, the future three-term Prime Minister, following her untimely death.
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