Bøger af Gwen Kirkwood

Continuing the story of the characters introduced in THE LAIRD OF LOCHANDEE In the years following the end of the Second World War life for the farming folk at the Glens of Lochandee is tough. Many families in the village have been bereaved, and rationing is affecting business. Nevertheless, Conan Maxwell's new garage is doing well, and he and his Welsh-born partner, Nick, are hoping to expand. Nick and young Bridie Maxwell are planning to marry - when they can afford a home of their own - and their future looks rosy. When Bridie's old schoolfriend Fiona Sinclair, now a successful accountant, returns to live nearby Bridie is delighted, and Fiona, whose fiance was killed in the war, is heartened by the warm welcome accorded to her by all - except, perhaps, her old childhood rival, Conan. Yet Rachel Maxwell, Bridie's mother, still finds reason to worry. Though her marriage to Ross is as passionate and loving as when they first met she fears for her friends and family - and especially, in these troubled times, for the long-term future of her beloved Glens of Lochandee... The first chapter of THE LAIRD OF LOCHANDEE won the Romantic Novelists' Association's Elizabeth Goudge Trophy for historical fiction.

When seventeen-year-old Marie Sinclair travelled to Strathlinn in Scotland in 1920 to visit her brother and his new family, all she was looking for is rest and recuperation after the death of Lady Hanley, for whom she had been caring for over the past eighteen months. But when her pregnant sister-in-law is rushed to hospital in danger of the life of her and her twins, Marie is forced to take on a far greater role in the lives of her Scottish family.And who is Mark Blackford, the new, young Estate owner, who seems only interested in machines and who is struggling under the new responsibilities of running the estate and gathering rent from tenants who are not always inclined to pay? Meeting him on the train to Strathlinn, Marie's life becomes entwined with his, as friend, help-meet, and, maybe, something more? Full of complex, loveable characters, and poised at a moment when the world is changing in new and dramatic ways, A Scottish Destiny is a beautiful novel which explores how, in a world turned upside down, the things that bind us continue to do so - family, responsibility and, though Marie dare not whisper it to herself, love. From the author of Return to Bonnybrae, this is another gripping tale of love in a heart-warming climate.

It is 1919 and Miss Rina Capel, granddaughter of the Laird of Stavondale has one ambition - to set aside her life of privilege and become a nurse. But when she is summoned back to Bonnybrae to see her dying grandfather, he reveals to her family secrets which turn her world upside down. And what dark secret is it that her father harbours?