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Rhona Rauszer has had a long and varied life, but she has always been drawn back to her ancestral homeland, Skye, the setting of these stories. Despite health problems and a lack of formal education Her Polish-born husband Kazimir always encouraged her creativity, and after his death Rhona settled in Skye and began to make her living by writing and painting. Neither financial hardship nor blindness has hindered the flow of her imagination and her ability to evoke the people and landscapes of her island home. The stories collected here, many of which have been previously recorded for broadcast on BBC Scottish Home Service radio, are ordered thematically. The collection begins with stories of childhood and 'the ever young', progresses to tales of men and their boats, pipers and gamekeepers, and then to a group of stories about women and domesticity, culminating with the spiritual world of the cailleach and sacred seer. The text is enhanced by maps of the places where the stories are set, period photographs of Skye and also the author's own evocative paintings.
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32 stories by Rhona Rauszer as a tribute to Skye and her own personal heritage conveying her knowledge and love of Hebridean culture and geography with tales of men and their boats, pipers and gamekeepers and the domestic lives of the island women.
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"'Mrs Rauszer's writing is absolutely charming. One is conscious throughout... of the living voice' - Dr John McInnes, School of Scottish Studies, Edinburgh University."
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- PublisherPolygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 1904598129
- ISBN 13 9781904598121
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
- EditorWilliamson Linda
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