Pink Sugar by O Douglas
Kirsty Gilmour ("I'm 30 but you shouldn't make me say it out loud,") makes a home for herself in the Scottish Borders and takes under her wing a gentle old aunt and three motherless children; Barbara, Specky and Bad Bill. Originally written in the 1920s,'Pink Sugar' is full of perfectly drawn characters with old-fashioned values from a vanished world; a world of kindness and good manners, of generosity and self-restraint, and yet a world where poverty, illness and bereavement are just below the surface. In this society of women with peripheral men, social life centres round afternoon tea - we could be in Cranford-on-Tweed. This edition includes a Foreword by Lady Stewartby, the author's great-niece and Bad Bill's daughter, and an introduction to the Peeblesshire locations where Anna Buchan was so very much at home.
'O. Douglas' was the pseudonym of Anna Buchan, the younger sister of John. Born a daughter of the manse in Fife, she grew up in Glasgow and lived most of her adult life in Peebles in the Scottish Borders. Her 'mild domestic fiction' made her world famous.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780955941382 |
| ISBN 10 | 0955941385 |
| Title | Pink Sugar |
| Author | O Douglas |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Greyladies |
| Year published | 2009-08-29 |
| Number of pages | 363 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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