Clap Hands for the Singing Molecatcher: Scenes from a Scottish Childhood - Softcover

Grant, Roderick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1912476681 ISBN 13: 9781912476688

Verlag: Birlinn General, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

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 laborer, 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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Roderick Grant was born in Forres, Morayshire, in 1941, where he attended the local academy. He has worked as a forestry worker, a journalist, a newspaper editor, a television presenter, a radio broadcaster, a bookshop manager and a postman. He has been published in both Britain and the USA.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Birlinn General
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1912476681
• ISBN 13: 9781912476688
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176
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