The stories in this collection lovingly trace the lives of men and
women in north-east Scotland that are thrown into relief by moments
of change or crisis. Violet Jacob's characters struggle with the
burden of secret knowledge or forbidden desire against a landscape
that is both recognizably Scottish and yet also touched by the
presence of something "beyond the bounds of this present world," as
she describes it in one story. Jacob writes in clear, carefully
observed language that captures both the linguistic variety of her
characters and the often limited opportunities her characters must
face. In one notable story, a young woman must choose between
obedience to her miserly father or love for an unworthy suitor; in
another, a sailor back home in Angus weighs the benefits of a
land-bound life against the freedom of the seas. In each of the
stories in the volume, Jacob illuminates landscapes and lives
marked by what she elsewhere calls "the beauty of suggestion, the
glamour of the unseen, the half-guessed." Jacob's vivid imagery and
the precision of her language are not dimmed by time; the stories
in this volume will enthrall contemporary readers with their
portraits of places and individuals that appear so clearly crafted
that Jacob's "own country" on the page becomes as real to readers
as the real geographical places she describes.
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