- Paperback: 244 pages
- Publisher: iUniverse (4 Aug 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0595325378
- ISBN-13: 978-0595325375
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,046,602 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The recollections of Louisa Mowatt Mackenzie (Jenkins) of her growing-up years in a working-class neighbourhood of Edinburgh, Scotland, constitutes a valuable addition to the literature of the era. Though disguising her heroine as Susie, The Tree That Grew in St. James Square is clearly autobiographical. Susie takes up her story in two parts--her childhood years (1932-1937), and her adolescent years (1938-1942).
Her photographic memory draws the reader into the joys and sorrows of street games, school dances, processions, Easter egg rolls, the death of her brother, her first love. Hers was a way of life experienced by thousands of Scots in those difficult times. How her large family coped with hardship but shared each other's trouble and triumphs is an absorbing tale deserving a permanent place in the history of Edinburgh, and indeed anywhere.
--Lindsey Wilger Williams, Charlotte Sun Herald
About the Author
Louisa Mowatt Mackenzie of Edinburgh is wife of Tom Jenkins and mother to Glyn and Llewellyn.Material in New Fiction, Arrival Press, National Library of Poetry, Maryland, U S A. Pot-Pourri of Poems launched in St. James complex. Ghost writer of brother?s war memoirs launched in Canada. She is presently writing her Wren memoirs, Bellbottoms and Blackouts.
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Fond memories of my childhood., 28 July 2005
By Aileen Sutherland - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Tree That Grew in St. James Square (Paperback)
I thoroughly enjoyed this book, since my grandmother and grandfather lived in St. James Street until the area was taken over to build the hotel. It was also interesting because one of the characters (Jane) is my aunt.
Aileen Sutherland.
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