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Leigh evocatively describes the many characters, incidents, and experiences that affected her life in the West Highlands. From hailstorms on the rook, through runaway cows and stubborn horses, and the breathtaking beauty of the sea, the wildlife and the landscape, nothing escaped her sharp eye and lively sense of humor.
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Margaret Leigh is the author of Driftwood and Tangle, Highland Homespun, Harvest of the Moor and My Kingdom for a Horse. A women of great independence, she moved to Scotland from Cornwall in 1939, making the entire journey on horseback! She stayed in the Highlands throughout the war, returning to Cornwall in the late 1940s. This book has been reprinted three times for Birlinn and is one of the classics of highland life written by a sympathetic and sharply observant outsider.
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'There's a great deal of lovely writing in this book, and that in itself makes it a pleasure to read' --Ronnie Black, The Scotsman
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