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The Camerons by Robert Crichton
bookshelves: hardback, paper-read, britain-scotland, giftee, tbr-busting-2014, published-1972, drilling-mining-digging, under-500-ratings, fife, autumn-2014, families, slit-yer-wrists-gloomy
Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: pressie from m
Recommended for: Cookson or Hardy lovers
Read from December 18, 2012 to November 12, 2014
Description: The Camerons is the story of the indomitable Maggie Drum, who washes the grime of coal-mining Pitmungo town from her beautiful face and sets out to find a man worthy of fathering her family. It is the story of the big, poor-but-proud Highlander who marries her, gives her seven children, and challenges her with an unyielding spirit of his own.
Portions of this book originally appeared in PLAYBOY MAGAZINE and in THE LADIES' HOME JOURNAL.
Dedication:
Opening: She was awake.
Sound asleep one moment, her eyes wide open the next, staring up into the blackness of the ceiling.
It can be forgiven to initially think that poor Gillan did not deserve what happened to him - he wandered into the crosshairs of Maggie Drum's scope and became as poached as the night-landed salmon in the firth.
Portions of this book originally appeared in PLAYBOY MAGAZINE and in THE LADIES' HOME JOURNAL.
Dedication:
For
Kyle Crichton,
who helped inspire this story,
and
Robert Gottlieb,
whose hand helped shape it.
Opening: She was awake.
Sound asleep one moment, her eyes wide open the next, staring up into the blackness of the ceiling.
It can be forgiven to initially think that poor Gillan did not deserve what happened to him - he wandered into the crosshairs of Maggie Drum's scope and became as poached as the night-landed salmon in the firth.
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