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Flemington
Violet Jacob
Book Overview:
This adventure historical fiction novel is set in Angus, Scotland during the Jacobite rebellion of 1745. It has all the elements of a good war novel: spies, betrayals, politics, and even a love story (but not quite what you expect). This is a smart novel with wise insights into human nature, the different choices people make during a conflict, and the coping mechanisms of those who were left behind. This novel will make you laugh, cry, and fall in love with the landscape of Scotland.
This adventure historical fiction novel is set in Angus, Scotland during the Jacobite rebellion of 1745. It has all the elements of a good war novel: spies, betrayals, politics, and even a love story (but not quite what you expect). This is a smart novel with wise insights into human nature, the different choices people make during a conflict, and the coping mechanisms of those who were left behind. This novel will make you laugh, cry, and fall in love with the landscape of Scotland.
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Flemington would have given a great deal to run after him, and could easily have overtaken the cart, for its pace was not very formidable. But the whole community, including the tow-headed little girl, was watching Skirling Wattie out of sight and speculating, he knew, upon his own identity. So he walked leisurely on till the road turned at the top of the hill, and he was rewarded at the other side of its bend by the sight of the beggar halting his team by a pond at which the dogs were drinking. He threw a look around and behind him; then, as no human creature was to be seen, he gave a loud whistle, holding up his arm, and began to run.
Skirling Wattie awaited him at the pond-side, and as Archie approached, he could almost feel his bold eyes searching him from top to toe. He stopped by the cart.
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Community Reviews
A book about the Jacobite rebellion focussing on a few characters from both sides. A bit of espionage, a bit of tragedy, some humour, some battles, great characters and I really enjoyed it.
Might have preferred it if this book was a bit longer, especially in its middle sections. But I suppose in a way it's appropriate that it isn't- one of the messages I took away was the shortness and brutality of life, as well as the beauty of living. It is not quite a grand sweeping historical epic-
I love this book. So, so much. I had to read it for my university class, and I started while halfway through Walter Scott's Waverley, expecting it to be the same dull, romantic version of the Jacobite rebellion as Scott's writing. I did not touch Waverley again until I finished this book, because th
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