A Dark And Distant Shore - Softcover

Tannahill, Reay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1781859035 ISBN 13: 9781781859032

Publisher: Head of Zeus, 2014

Synopsis

Reay Tannahill's great bestseller is the story of an extraordinary woman's determination to win back her birthright - the remote and beautiful West Highland castle of Kinveil - sold by her father to a Glasgow merchant when she was seven years old. It is also the intricate picture of a family in the heyday of the British Empire, an epic story spanning almost a hundred years and stretching from Edinburgh to the Crimea, from an expanding America to the India of the Raj. An absorbing saga spanning a century of love affairs, hatreds and highpoints of Victorian history sure to be a page turner for all readers. This paperback book has 720 pages and measures 12.7 x 5.2 x 20.3cm

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'An ancient brooding castle... a dispossessed child... a lifelong passion for one errant man... wars, crises and feuds... ' WASHINGTON POST.

Reay Tannahill's great bestseller is the story of an extraordinary woman's determination to win back her birthright - the remote and beautiful West Highland castle of Kinveil - sold by her father to a Glasgow merchant when she was seven years old. It is also the intricate picture of a family in the heyday of the British Empire, an epic story spanning almost a hundred years and stretching from Edinburgh to the Crimea, from an expanding America to the India of the Raj.

Review:

'This novel most closely emulates... WAR AND PEACE... The heart beats faster as each page turns.' Toronto Globe.

'An absorbing saga spanning a century of love affairs, hatreds and highpoints of Victorian history' Daily Express.

'A fine storyteller with... an appreciation of the Highlands that is downright poetic'.' --Washington Post

About this edition

• Publisher: Head of Zeus
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1781859035
• ISBN 13: 9781781859032
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 720