Where the Apple Ripens & Other Stories (Virago Modern Classics) - Softcover

Kesson, Jessie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853815004 ISBN 13: 9781853815003

Publisher: Virago Pr, 1993

Synopsis

In these stories, the author evokes the vulnerability and promise of childhood and adolescence and the uncertainty of childhood, and conjures up the charm and dourness of the Scottish countryside. Her subjects are those on the fringe of society - the old, the homeless, the orphaned and the lonely.

About this title

About the Author

Jessie Kesson was born in Inverness in 1916 and spent her early childhood in Elgin with her mother (she never knew her father) until she was sent to the orphanage in Aberdeenshire. After leaving 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. She died in 1994.

Edition details

• Publisher: Virago Pr
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1853815004
• ISBN 13: 9781853815003
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 159