The Laird of Lochandee - Hardcover

Kirkwood, Gwen

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ISBN 10: 0727858777 ISBN 13: 9780727858771

Publisher: Severn House, 2002

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Connor O'Brian's dying wish is for his young and beautiful daughter, Rachel, to be taken in by his old friend, Maxwell Connor and his family. Despite the cruelty of Maxwell's wife, Gertrude, her son and Rachel soon fall in love. One morning Rachel and Ross have disappeared, but when an abused Rachel is found wandering the Scottish lanes, it is obvious she hasn't eloped with Ross, as first thought. After years of bitterness and deeply buried secrets, Ross and Rachel are eventually reunited and they begin their life together farming the land on the Glens of Lochandee. They face both happiness and strife; bouts of diphtheria and foot and mouth, affecting both animal and human life. Through the hardship of war and the joy of the land, the Glens of Lochandee survive to give hope and life to another generation and the desires, hopes and secrets of her inhabitants fertilise the land for the future to come.

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Kirkwood was born on a Yorkshire farm. She went to Agriculture College before marrying a Scottish dairy farmer.

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Right before 16-year-old Rachel's father dies, he asks his friend, Maxwell Connor, to take her into his home. Maxwell readily agrees, but his formidable wife, Gertrude, subjects Rachel to constant cruelty and verbal abuse. In her Cinderella-like existence, Rachel finds love with the Connors' son, Ross, but Gertrude sends Ross away, whips a now pregnant Rachel, and kicks her out of the house. As Rachel struggles to survive, Ross, ignorant of Rachel's condition, begins working at Lochandee, a dairy farm. Finally reunited, they suffer, over the course of 20 years, through diphtheria, hoof-and-mouth disease, the death of a child, a threat of eviction, poverty, World War II, and many other calamities. Set against a background of world events during the thirties and forties, Kirkwood's tale of an unlucky Scottish couple will interest fans of soap operas, miniseries, and sagas such as Colleen McCullough's The Thorn Birds. Shelley Mosley
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