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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.
'I think it is the best Scots romance since The Master of
Ballantrae,' said John Buchan when Flemington was first published
in 1911. Violet Jacob's fifth and finest novel is a tragic drama of
the 1745 Jacobite Rising, tightly written, poetic in its symbolic
intensity, lit by flashes of humour and informed by the author's
own family history as one of the Erskines of the House of Dun near
Montrose. Drawn back to these roots in her later years, Violet
Jacob also wrote many unforgettable short stories about the people,
the landscapes and the language of the North-east. In this volume
fourteen of these stories are re-collected and re-edited as Tales
from Angus.
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