Another Time, Another Place - Softcover

Kesson, Jessie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1842624695 ISBN 13: 9781842624692

Publisher: Dales Large Print, 2006

Synopsis

It is 1944 and a truck-load of Italian prisoners-of-war arrive in a tiny village in a north-east corner of Scotland. Two men claim Janie's attention, and gradually she is drawn into an escape as old as time, with results that dramatically change her life.

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Review:

Her writing is marked by an elegant economy of language and a sharp understanding of country communities. --Trevor Royle

Jessie Kesson writes beautifully, her strong, delicate prose full of poetry and humour. --Daily Telegraph

About the Author:

Jessie Kesson was born in October 1916 in Inverness. Her childhood was spent in Elgin with her mother (she never knew her father), until she was sent to an orphanage at Skeene in Aberdeenshire. After leaving Skeene school she entered service, and in 1934 moved to a farm with her husband, who was a cottar. She combined a successful writing career with a variety of jobs, from cleaner to artist's model, and was a social worker for nearly twenty years, settling finally in London with her husband. The early years of her life influenced much of Jessie Kesson's writing. Her work includes the novels The White Bird Passes (1958), Glitter of Mica (1963), Another Time, Another Place (1983) and the short story collection Where the Apple Ripens (1985). In addition, she wrote poetry, newspaper features, and plays for radio and television. Jessie Kesson died in 1994.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dales Large Print
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1842624695
• ISBN 13: 9781842624692
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176