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An Englishwoman and her family in the 1950s trade life in the city for a small farm near Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands in this beloved memoir.
A real classic among Highland books, A Croft in the Hills captures, in simple, moving descriptions, what it was really like trying to make a living out of a hill croft fifty years ago. A couple and their young daughter, fresh from city life, immerse themselves in the practicalities of looking after...
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A collection of memoirs about an English woman and her family giving up city life for the Scottish Highlands in the 1950s.
Katharine Stewart, who died in 2013, was one of Scotland's best-loved writers on rural life in the Highlands. A Croft in the Hills, her first book, tells the story of how a couple and their young daughter, fresh from city life, took over a remote hill croft near Loch Ness and made a living from it. Full of warm personal insights,...
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The author of the classic A Croft in the Hills takes us through a year in her Scottish Highlands garden and its many delights.
This illustrated book celebrates one of humankind's oldest pleasures. Month by month, we are taken through a year in the life of Katharine Stewart's garden outside the old schoolhouse in Abriachan, Scotland, where she lives with her husband and daughter. The circle of the seasons is luminously evoked as we are told of the...
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