Where's Home? - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1908295112 ISBN 13: 9781908295118

Casa editrice: BrightSpark Publishing, 2013

Riassunto

Childhood in the Scottish Highlands just after the second World War

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Recensione

In this beautifully written memoir, William MacKenzie gives a moving and often humorous account of the Highlands in the 1940s and 50s. The book's title refers to the family's return to their home in Invercarron, Ardgay, after the Second World War. He describes a way of life that has disappeared, before the coming of electricity, television and mobile 'phones. Brought up in a loving family with an older brother and two older sisters, William recalls seasonal activities at Invercarron Farm where the farmer, Duncan Munro, encouraged him to help with many tasks. He gives vivid descriptions of turnip hoeing matches and sheepdog trials and of the tricks played on one another by the local characters involved. He displays an amazing knowledge of the countryside and readers will identify with his descriptions of boy-hood activities such as searching for birds' nests and fishing. School, local concerts, neighbours and friends all receive his attention. Irishman Pat, who drags trees from the woods with his beloved pair of horses, remains in one's mind long after the book has been put down. There are vivid portraits of family members, especially of his eccentric paternal grandmother. You will laugh and cry in turns while reading this delightful book. --Lily Byron "The Northern Times".

So many contemporary memoirs fall into one of two categories. Either the self-promoting and ghost-written autobiographies who will most likely be forgotten tomorrow and whose accounts of their lives often include more fiction than fact. Or the ever-popular "misery memoirs", which became so popular after "Angela's Ashes" and "A Child Called It', with ever more depressing accounts of childhood abuse and which sometimes give the impression that such abuse is the norm rather than the exception. It is a pleasure to read a memoir that, while not avoiding tragedy, emphasises the happiness and and love experienced, particularly one as beautifully and self-deprecatingly written as this one. --Kevin Crowe "Am Bratach Magazine".

L'autore

An old man now!

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: BrightSpark Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1908295112
• ISBN 13: 9781908295118
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 160
• Redattore: MacKenzie W.A.M.
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile