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1) The Setons
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The Setons depicts Scottish country life in the early 20th century, as young Elizabeth Seton uses her strength of character to keep the household together following her mother's death. A minor classic, The Setons remains as one of Olivia Douglas' best regarded and most readable novels.
2) Pink Sugar
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Kirsty Gilmour makes a home for herself in the Scottish Borders and takes under her wing a gentle old aunt and three motherless children, Barbara, Specky and Bad Bill. Originally written in the 1920s, Pink Sugar is full of perfectly drawn characters with old-fashioned values from a vanished world, a world of kindness and good manners, of generosity and self-restraint, and yet a world where poverty, illness and bereavement are just below the surface....
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This book is a sequel to the earlier novel, The Proper Place, concerning an aristocratic Scottish family, the Rutherfurds, forced by circumstances to sell the family estate. Lady Jane has lost both of her sons in the recent Great War, the subsequent death of her husband and unexpected financial hardship prompts her one remaining child, a daughter, Nicole, to suggest they move to a smaller establishment more within their now more-limited means. Accompanying...
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The domestic chronicles of a minister's family that bears a remarkable resemblance to the Buchans themselves, Eliza for Common is set in Glasgow just after the Great War. As Eliza grows up, she longs for beauty and excitement, and gradually emerges from the confines of being a daughter of the manse to find her own way in the world...
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A domestic tale of country gentlefolk, between the Wars, and their families, friends and acquaintances, mostly in their beloved Scotland, but also in London. Jane's Parlour is the cosy sanctum where Katharyn, wife, mother of five children and writer, retreats for peace and re-invigoration, serving as a symbol of a settled fulfilling country life.
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The Proper Place is delightful reading and is Miss O. Douglas at her best. The story deals with the Rutherfurd family, who have to leave their beautiful country house and all their friends on Tweedside and settle in the littler Fife sea town of Kirkmeikle. Here, Lady Jane and the attractive, friendly Nicole rapidly make a niche for themselves until we feel it is indeed Kirkmeikle that is their "proper place." It is a joy to read of their endless ability...