Conshee by Johnnie Rua

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Conshee by Johnnie Rua

A Scottish ex-pat has moved abroad for work, marriage and to try and escape his guilt over the loss of his younger sister many years earlier. He also has desperately tried to bury how his family were castigated and tormented for being conscientious objectors from the time of World War Two. Even after the war this has continued with the word ‘CONSHEE’ being repainted on their house wall for over five decades. With this tradition seemingly forever in place he also inherited the sobriquet, ‘Conshee’, when he attended secondary school as a child.

As there had been no definite evidence of his sister’s body being found, the mystery of her disappearance remains overwhelming. Suddenly, strange seemingly unrelated occurrences and deaths draw him back into the body of his family who have endured longstanding acrimony. He must now forgo any thoughts of pacifism as the quest escalates. His journey to find out the truth behind the unusual events will require the assistance of an ex-military uncle and a callow cousin and will take them away from their home district and country, encountering high danger and great risk along this path they must now follow.

Johnnie Rua has worked in Medicine for over thirty years but always held a desire to write. Taking early retirement, he started to write the novel that he would have loved to read as someone growing up in the Highlands. But now he has had the life experience of a busy occupation as well as exposure to travel to aid him in this quest.
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ISBN 13 9781806344345
ISBN 10 1806344343
Title Conshee
Author Johnnie Rua
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Troubador Publishing
Year published 2026-07-28
Number of pages 448
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.