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My Friends The Miss Boyds
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Author : Jane Duncan
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2015-08-27
My Friends The Miss Boyds written by Jane Duncan and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-27 with Fiction categories.
Here, seen through the uninhibited eyes of eight-year-old Janet Sandison, is a vanished world-an isolated community living by its own unquestioned code of decency and integrity. Into this remote backwater come the 'Miss Boyds'-a clutch of flighty, townbred sisters. At first they are figures of fun, but the tragedy that overtakes them arouses all the compassion of the highland people. Full of humour, incident and colour, this delightful novel brings a forgotten era vividly to life, captures all a child's excitement as the world expands around her.
My Friends The Miss Boyds
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Author : Jane Duncan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1959
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Into a peaceful backwater in Ross-shire come the Miss Boyds - essentially silly, giggling old maids, at first they are laughing stocks, everthing they do and say offends the other in the community but when tragedy strikes a kindness is aroused.
My Friends The Miss Boyds
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Author : Jane Duncan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010-06
My Friends The Miss Boyds written by Jane Duncan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06 with Autobiographical fiction categories.
Into a peaceful backwater in Ross-shire come the Miss Boyds - essentially silly, giggling old maids, at first they are laughing stocks, everthing they do and say offends the other in the community but when tragedy strikes a kindness is aroused.
My Friend Muriel
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Author : Jane Duncan
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2015-08-27
My Friend Muriel written by Jane Duncan and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-27 with Fiction categories.
Janet Sandison made her bow in My Friends the Miss Boyds, Jane Duncan's sparkling first novel. Here she is again, now a determined young woman of twenty with a University degree. Taking a job with a cranky Pen-Friend organization, she meets Muriel. Muriel is uncompromisingly plain, but clings like ivy. As the lively narrative unfolds, Muriel's story and Janet's diverge and interlace again, aided by a blushing curate, an eccentric she-dragon and her severely repressed husband, by a shady confidence trickster and a suit of armour!
My Friends The Miss Boyds
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Author : Jane Duncan
language : en
Publisher: Isis
Release Date : 1998
My Friends The Miss Boyds written by Jane Duncan and has been published by Isis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Large print books categories.
The first of Jane Duncan's enchanting autobiographical novels tells of the author's childhood at Reachfar. Janet, the narrator was brought up by her stern old grandmother; George, her uncle; and Tom, the hired hand, who was nevertheless one of the family. Into this peaceful backwater come the Miss Boyds, who have come to settle in the neighbourhood. At first everything they say and do offends decent bahaviour by which the community lives. It is only when tragedy overtakes them that the compassion and great-hearted kindness of the Reachfar family and their neighbours is aroused.
My Friend Flora
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Author : Jane Duncan
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2015-08-27
My Friend Flora written by Jane Duncan and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-27 with Fiction categories.
My Friend Flora is set in the 'Reachfar' country-the Black Isle in Rossshire-where the narrator, Janet Sandison, spent her childhood and which was the setting for the first of Jane Duncan's enchanting books, My Friends the Miss Boyds. The same marvellous sense of the countryside and its people gives its colour and warmth to the story of Flora 'Bedamned' and her family. Flore and the other Bedamneds (the bye-name, inherited from Flora's great-grandfather, is strikingly apt) first impinge on Janet's life when, at the age of five, she goes to the village school in Achcraggan in 1915. Jamie Bedamned and his forbears have cast their own special and sinister blight on the countryside for generations-morose, black-browed, independent, ill-favoured craftsmen better suited to the construction of dark, satanic mills than the bridges and buildings of the Highlands. But Flora's bedamnedness is of a more passive nature. When her mother dies, she leaves school to bring up her younger brothers and sisters, including the terrifying Georgie, and to keep house for her curmudgeonly old father. Janet, George and Tom and, in particular, Janet's young aunt Kate battle to improve the lot of the patient-maddeningly patient-Flora, a natural-born doormat. But in the end it is Flora who turns the tables on her would-be benefactors and is the means of bringing unexpected happiness to the Sandisons of Reachfar. My Friend Flora is without doubt one of Jane Duncan's finest books.
Reappraising Jane Duncan
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Author : Rita Elizabeth Rippetoe
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2017-02-28
Reappraising Jane Duncan written by Rita Elizabeth Rippetoe and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
Scottish novelist Jane Duncan's semiautobiographical My Friends series was dismissed by postwar critics as lightweight, at a time when a coterie of "angry young men" monopolized the attention of the British publishing establishment. Yet deeper themes are at play in the 19 novels. Modern readers will recognize feminist motifs, a wide-ranging examination of women's education and work in the 20th century, a woman's view of the rising societal tensions of the 1920s and 1930s, and an outsider's perspective on the racial divide in the soon-to-be-independent West Indies. This book explores Duncan's body of work, out of print for decades, though sought by loyal fans. Her characters run the gamut--drunken tinkers, Lowland housewives, Irish miners, members of the London fast set and English marchionesses, all portrayed with telling detail. Her novels--two of them recently reprinted for a new generation--reveal a charming and perceptive recorder of the changes Great Britain underwent in the past century.
My Friend Monica
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Author : Jane Duncan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962
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My Friends George And Tom
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Author : Jane Duncan
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2015-08-27
My Friends George And Tom written by Jane Duncan and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-27 with Fiction categories.
Janet Sandison comes home to the small fishing village of Achcraggan in Scotland. Behind her are ten years of happiness with her husband Twice, whose death has brought to an end their life on the island of St Jago in the West Indies. Before her lies a new career as a novelist and a return to the countryside of her childhood-and above all to George and Tom who were her closest friends, mentors and allies, in those early days. But now, Reachfar, the family croft on the hill overlooking Poyntdale Bay, has been sold and George and Tom in their old age are living cheerfully if haphazardly in Jemima Cottage in the village. Janet, George and Tom quickly take up their lives together after nearly forty years apart; Janet buys and converts an old barn on the shore and the three of them set up house. Janet, who has not found it easy to face the loss of her beloved Twice nor to adjust to the strange new world of the professional writer, rediscovers with delight that the old Reachfar values still hold a firm grip on her family and neighbours, but the one thing she cannot face is the ruin of the Reachfar croft itself. Not even the urging of her young nephews and niece- the Hungry Generation-will persuade her to climb the hill. This psychological problem is only a small part of the dramas and happenings, some sad, some joyous, which fill the pages of this enchanting and wonderfully enjoyable book. Readers of any or all of Jane Duncan's 'Friends' novels will rejoice particularly in My Friends George and Tom, for the wise and funny characters of the title have played important supporting parts in many of the earlier books and finally have a book which is triumphantly their own.
Rapt In Plaid
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Author : Elizabeth Waterston
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2003-12-01
Rapt In Plaid written by Elizabeth Waterston and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-12-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Illustrate a long-lasting connection between Scottish and Canadian literary traditions and illuminates the way Scottish ideas and values still wield surprising power in Canadian politics, education, theology, economics and social mores.