Synopsis
The sequel to the outstandingly successful Far from the Rowan Tree, the story of the Gillies family's brave migration to Canada in the 1950s. This book takes up the story in their return to Scotland, to life on a farm on the Carse of Gowrie. Margaret Gillies Brown writes simply and movingly about the ebb and flow of life as a farmer's wife with eventually seven children.
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Review
"A heartwarming story." -- The Leopard
"Pioneers like these are the kind of Scots we should hear more about." -- Govanhill & Gorbals News
"You can't help but warm to this." -- Farmers Weekly
"brilliant insight" -- The Big Issue
"compellingly personal, (a) vivid portrait" -- Scotland on Sunday
Synopsis
Around the Rowan Tree starts with the return of the Gillies family to Scotland, to life on a farm. Margaret writes about life as a farmers wife with seven children, while Canada and the experience of migration lives on in her children.'
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