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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Stroma is a hard-working 30 year old Highlander who lives in Blàs, a small rural village on the North Coast 500. Her passion: to save her language and culture from dying out. It also plays a large part in her everyday job as she travels around the region. However, it is not only her culture that is under threat, it is Blàs itself as it struggles to retain its population. Into the tide of people leaving strides Auntie Lottie, returning home to stay. She stirs it around, juggles it up and generally lives, works and plays given the chance. Lottie's return strengthens her friendship with Maureen and Ellen, old school pals of Stroma's late mother. Mary in her 80s completes this inter-generational friendship. Full of humour, the story follows the women through the first year of Auntie Lottie's return with Stroma's life being the most affected by her arrival. Follow their highs and lows, their festivals and celebrations, their laughter and their tears in this lovable community.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - As colourful as the machair that surrounds it.Escape to the Scottish Rural Highlands as Stroma and her quirky community continue to fight for their way of life.With few job opportunities and storms tearing at their coastline, Blàs is once more under threat. On top of that, Old Tam is predicting gloom and doom as tales of mythical creatures spread among the villagers, putting the rescue plans in a precarious position.Casting aside her own personal issues, Stroma must find a way forward for her friends and family. As spring turns to summer, the residents of Blàs begin to realise that the answers to their struggles lie in harnessing the very environment this is under threat.With its rich setting and lovable characters, this is a captivating story of friendship, fun, and the resilience of Highland life. Come along on this latest heart-warming tale of Blàs and discover the true meaning of belonging.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - This is the second in the series of the fictional village of Blàs, set in the North Highlands of Scotland. Life for Stroma (the narrator) and her intergenerational group of female friends is full of whimsical events and local traditions.However, their fragile lifestyle is under threat. Lack of housing jeopardises both the school role and the delicate balance of their population as young families are forced to move away to find jobs and affordable accommodation. An invasion of television tourism and an archaeological find puts further pressure on their community's existence. Campervans, tour buses, and cars jam the narrow streets. The once clean air is thick with petrol fumes and noise. Strangers crowd their village as locals hide behind their doors.The main characters are having challenges of their own. Auntie Lottie (in her fifties) can't seem to pick between a dog and a husband whilst her friend and local town crier Maureen may have found a husband everyone else thought she had lost. Mary the oldest of the friends (in her eighties), continues to quietly meddle in everyone's lives. Yet still, the role of bard and keeper of local folklore and history remains vacant since her husband's death. Could the position be split between two competing individuals Ellen, also in her fifties and the first person anyone goes to with a problem to solve, has had to withdraw from her normal role of a fixer of all things. She disappears just when her good advice and work ethic is needed.The local woods enshrined in stories and customs has suddenly come up for sale. What will happen to the villager's foraging, their access, and to future generation's right to play there The new family, the Smiths, soon become heavily involved in its future and join in with the rest of the community to safeguard it forever. As the various situations develop and resolve, the more integrated the Smith family becomes within Blàs and its way of life.Everyday events continue with births, deaths, and marriages taking place as the community struggle together to preserve what they have. Laughter, traditions, celebrations, and ceilidhs are sprinkled throughout the story as life goes on in the beauty that is the Scottish HighlandsThe story is about acceptance of who we are and the love of community. It is about the delicate balance between the need to make a living and the preserving of a way of life lived in the North Highlands of Scotland. It all hangs together around a women's friendship group. The age range is from Stroma in her thirties to Mary in her eighties and reflects real-life female friendships, particularly within rural communities.…

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Condizione: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. &Uumlber den AutorC C Hutton is a writer of English women s contemporary fiction with a dash of Gaelic, a large sprinkling of humour, and a wee drop of Scots. Ceitidh is also an award-winning writer of Gaelic children s picture books an. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Blàs | of the Highlands | C C Hutton | Taschenbuch | Kartoniert / Broschiert | Englisch | 2020 | Blàths | EAN 9780993254055 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.