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JayneB Reviews / Book Reviews1930s / brothers and sisters / fish-out-of-water / Historical / Scotland2 Comments

“Don’t, please, write and tell me that we’re mad.

I know it already; and even if I didn’t, every friend we possess has pointed it out. My spirit is quailing at the prospect of life at Easter Hartrigg, because I know what pitiful figures we shall cut as landowners in a country quite strange to us.”

Young Susan Parsons has just moved, with her unmarried brother Oliver, to a newly-inherited property in the Scottish Lowlands.

Their neighbours prove a mixed bag, including the towering, kindly Jed Armstrong, a farmer whose land ‘marches with’ theirs, the local vicar and his family, and the three gossipy Pringle sisters, who travel by donkey-drawn cart and get their knives into one and all.

After a bumpy start, with a disagreeable cook and her nincompoop daughter as their only help, Su