Barra’s Angel - Softcover

Campbell, Eileen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1857029771 ISBN 13: 9781857029772

Publisher: Fourth Estate, 1999

Synopsis

Barra's Angel

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From the Publisher:

From the bestselling author of 'The Company of Strangers'
As Easter approaches in the small Highland community of Drumdarg, Rose Maclean is faced with a problem. Her husband Chalmers has caught the eye of flirty Sheena Mearns.

Rose, however, is not the only one with problems. The crime that poor mad Hattie MacCaskill was accused of many years ago is about to be resurrected. Stewart Cunningham is bringing up his unpopular Sassenach wife from London to revisit his childhood home, and Maisie Henderson fears that if her alcoholic common-law husband Doug ever gives up the drink he'll notice how overweight she is - and take off.

And, as if Rose's husband isn't giving her enough to worry about, her wayward fourteen-year-old son Barra would have her believe that he has a new best friend called Jamie - a friend only Barra can see, a friend who Barra insists will sort our everyone's problems.

For Barra's new friend is an angel

Synopsis:

Reminiscent of Frank Capra's 'Its a Wonderful Life', Eileen Campbell's second novel is set once again in a small highland community, this time in the mid-Sixties, and exposing the complex relationships and love affairs of its inhabitants. As Easter approaches in the small highland community of Drumdarg, Rose Chalmers, who takes in Bedders at her B&B has a few problems: her electrician husband Chalmers (who hopes to secure the big re-wiring contract from the Cunninghams up at the Big House) has caught the eye of flirty Sheena Mearns, and her eccentric 14-year-old son Barra wants her to believe his new best friend is an angel called Jamie he met while wandering in the woods. Rose is not the only one with problems: did Mad Hattie Macaskill really murder her mother years ago? And as Jim Pasco is dying, his business partner Graham stands by to claim his wife. Stewart Cunningham at the Big House has married a snobbish Sassenach and is bringing her up from London for Easter, and vastly overweight Maisie Henderson, who runs the Whig bar adorned in flowing purple kaftans, is convinced that if her alcoholic husband Doug ever gives up the drink he'll realise how ugly she is and leave her.

And weaving in and out of everyone's lives is young Barra Maclean who believes the angel only he can see will be able to sort out everyone's problems.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1857029771
• ISBN 13: 9781857029772
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384