Clap Hands for the Singing Molecatcher : Scenes from a Scottish Childhood Paperback / softback
by Roderick Grant
Paperback / softback
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Clap Hands for the Singing Molecatcher is both hilarious and deeply moving in its splendid account of the writer's childhood on a remote country estate in Morayshire in the 1940s and 1950s; a place where isolated hill farms, limitless moorland and the rock-strewn banks of wild, tumbling rivers became the backdrop for a variety of adventures and experiences.
Laughter, tragedy and dramatic incident thread their way through the life of a growing boy and the lives of the people he observes. Roderick Grant's book is not merely one of nostalgic recall.
It is a richly evocative memoir of a time and place when horses still drew ploughs and children walked seven miles or more each day to reach their school; and where shepherd and gamekeeper, farmer and labourer, forester, railway worker, teacher, laird and minister, and their families, were all part of a community, close-knit in its isolation from the changing post-war world.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:176 pages
- Publisher:Birlinn General
- Publication Date:01/08/2019
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- ISBN:9781912476688
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:176 pages
- Publisher:Birlinn General
- Publication Date:01/08/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9781912476688