My Friend Annie (Ind) - Softcover

Jane Duncan

4.16

86 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0552128775 ISBN 13: 9780552128773

Publisher: Corgi, 1987

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My Friend Annie takes the reader back into Janet Sandison's childhood. It opens as the death of her mother shatters the bliss of her Highland home. Janet migrates with her father to grimy, lowland Cairnton, where she meets the hateful and stupid Jean, soon, alas, to be her step-mother-and pretty Annie Black. Years of unhappiness are relieved by holidays among the unchanging loveliness of Reachfar. But while at school, Janet finds out about Annie's profession-a discovery that troubles her strong sense of right and wrong.

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About the Author:

Born in Scotland in 1910, Jane Duncan spent her childhood in Glasgow, going for holidays to the Black Isle of Inverness. After taking her degree at Glasgow University she moved to England in 1931, and when war broke out she was commissioned in the WAAF and worked in Photographic Intelligence. After the war she moved to the West Indies with her husband, who appears as 'Twice' Alexander in her novels. Shortly after he husband's death, she returned to Jemimaville near Cromarty, not far from her grandparents' croft which inspired the beloved 'Reachfar'. Jane Duncan died in 1976.

Review:

What a natural among story-tellers Jane Duncan is and what an honest and lively mind she brings to the tales she quite obviously loves writing ... My Friend Annie has the same refreshing tang as its predecessors Scotsman

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