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A Dark And Distant Shore
Reay Tannahill
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Description for A Dark And Distant Shore
Paperback. An intricate picture of a family in the heyday of the British Empire, an epic story spanning almost a hundred years and stretching from Edinburgh to the Crimea, from an expanding America to the India of the Raj. Num Pages: 720 pages. BIC Classification: FT; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 52. Weight in Grams: 568.
'An ancient brooding castle... a dispossessed child... a lifelong passion for one errant man... wars, crises and feuds... ' WASHINGTON POST. Reay Tannahill's great bestseller is the story of an extraordinary woman's determination to win back her birthright - the remote and beautiful West Highland castle of Kinveil - sold by her father to a Glasgow merchant when she was seven years old. It is also the intricate picture of a family in the heyday of the British Empire, an epic story spanning almost a hundred years and stretching from Edinburgh to the Crimea, from ... Read more
'An ancient brooding castle... a dispossessed child... a lifelong passion for one errant man... wars, crises and feuds... ' WASHINGTON POST. Reay Tannahill's great bestseller is the story of an extraordinary woman's determination to win back her birthright - the remote and beautiful West Highland castle of Kinveil - sold by her father to a Glasgow merchant when she was seven years old. It is also the intricate picture of a family in the heyday of the British Empire, an epic story spanning almost a hundred years and stretching from Edinburgh to the Crimea, from ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Head of Zeus United Kingdom
Number of pages
720
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
720
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781859032
SKU
V9781781859032
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-5
About Reay Tannahill
Reay Tannahill was born in Glasgow in 1929. She wrote two non-fiction bestsellers, FOOD IN HISTORY and SEX IN HISTORY and won the 1990 Romantic Novel of the Year Award for PASSING GLORY. She died in 2007.
Reviews for A Dark And Distant Shore
'A fine storyteller with... an appreciation of the Highlands that is downright poetic'.' Washington Post. 'An absorbing saga spanning a century of love affairs, hatreds and highpoints of Victorian history' Daily Express. 'This novel most closely emulates... WAR AND PEACE... The heart beats faster as each page turns.' Toronto Globe.