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Community => Coffee Lounge => Music, Books, Film, Theatre, TV... => Topic started by: fiestyredhead331 on September 29, 2015, 03:38:13 pm
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Just working my way through this one which I shoud have done YEARS ago as I know the family and went to school with one of the girls in the book
Its a nice piece of non-fiction describing how an accountant living in the South decides with his family (wife and 2 young girls) to take on the family croft in a pretty inaccessible spot near Kylesku and the trials and tribulations of taking a near derelict house (no running water, no sewage system, no road, no power, and making it a home for them all.
The youngest girl in the book, Clare came up last week for a holiday and popped down to see me, we hadn't seen each other for 26 years!! Glad to say the croft is still in family hands, albeit through a cousin now I think, but she still calls this place home.
An enjoyable read, not too long or romantic and makes me grateful that while we struggled to get our croft into a manageable state, we never had to worry about making a cup of tea or having a shower!
Rumour is there is a followup book being written ........ :innocent:
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I read it years ago and really enjoyed it.
The other similar book that I think defines the genre is Isolation Shepherd - well worth a read.
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I've just started reading Isolation Shepherd. I'm struck by just how much has changed. For example, they used to keep blackie / cheviot cross wethers until they were about 5 years old, because they were valuable for their wool. Same season lamb? What's that? :)
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have read Isolatian Shepherd and am keeping it, but have just finished Night Falls on Ardnamurchan, a wonderful book and if anyone wants a read I will send it to you, please pass it on!
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Just started the Kerracher Man, as it caught my eye in the library and I couldn't place where I had read the title.... of course on TAS!
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have read Isolatian Shepherd and am keeping it, but have just finished Night Falls on Ardnamurchan, a wonderful book and if anyone wants a read I will send it to you, please pass it on!
I'm part way through Isolation Shepherd! It all sounded very familiar and no wonder when I got the part about my grandparents! Grandad was a Shepherd on Strathmore :thumbsup: