Thistle soup
a ladleful of Scottish life
by Peter Kerr
A brimming and lively broth of rural characters, drunken ghosts, bullocks in the bedrooms and country superstitions.East Lothian is 'The Garden of Scotland' and the setting of this delightfully idiosyncratic story of country life. Often hilarious, always heartfelt and at times sad, here is unfolded the ups and downs of four generations of one farming family from the northerly Orkney Isles, who move to the little farm of Cuddy Neuk in the south of Scotland just before the outbreak of the Second World War. A young Peter, the peedie boy who sets his heart on filling his somewhat eccentric grandfather's straw-lined wellies, grows up to run the family farm and become a farmer father to his own sons, putting his ability to see the funny side of things to good use, as adversities crop up with an intriguing reality . . . By the same author: Snowball Oranges and Manana Manana.
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Country life, Farm life, Homes and haunts, Nonfiction, Social life and customs, Kerr, Peter, 1940- -- Homes and haunts -- Scotland -- East Lothian., Country life -- Scotland -- East Lothian., Farm life -- Scotland -- East Lothian., East Lothian (Scotland) -- Social life and customs., Country life, scotland, Scotland, social life and customs, Scotland, biography, FarmersPeople
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Thistle soup: a ladleful of Scottish life
2004, Lyons Press
in English
- 1st Lyons Press ed.
1592283780 9781592283781
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Originally published: Chichester, U.K. : Summersdale Publishers, c2002.
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