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'Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whisky makes it go round twice as fast.'The hilarious story of wartime bootlegging in the Scottish islands
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Wartime food rationing is bad enough, but when the whisky supplies run out on the Hebridean islands of Great and Little Todday, nothing seems to go right. Then the fifty-thousand-bottle cargo of the shipwrecked S. S. Cabinet Minister brings salvation - in its most giddily intoxicating form. (20030402)
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fabulous and funny - a classic,
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This review is from: Whisky Galore (Vintage Classics) (Paperback)
This is one of my favourite books ever written.It was made into a black and white film many years ago and is based on the true story of a cargo ship full of whisky running aground off the coast of a Scottish island during the war, when whisky was impossible to get hold of. You can guess the rest! The Scottish characters are excellently observed and you can almost smell the heather as the escapades of the islanders are brought to life on the page. Whimsical, warm and funny, this is a real feel-good book that can be read again and again. A true classic.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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Scotlands water of life with WW2 romance equals real humour,
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This review is from: Whisky Galore (Essential Penguin) (Paperback)
This is a an interplay between the hard dry times of two Scottish Islands when they run out of the "water of life", the glory of finding an unlimited source of it and the hardships facing a WW2 romance.The friendly humour brings me back time and time again -I've a copy printed in 1951 and it's just as a good read now as then. One of the most "five star" books ever written.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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See the film, read the book.,
By steve b (Dudley England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Whisky Galore (Vintage Classics) (Paperback)
This book from which the famous film was taken, is well worth a read in it's own right. It is different from the film in a number of ways, there are two islands not one and unlike the film there are Catholics as well as Calvinists on the island. Also the girl courted by George Campbell (played by Gordon Jackson in the film) is not the sister of the girl courted by the English soldier.If you enjoyed film, which I believe is a masterpiece, then read the book for a more complex and detailed, but just as funny, version of the same story. There are also a number of lesser known books in MacKenzie's Highlands series, such as Rockets Galore, The Rival Monster and the Monarch of the Glenn, which has nothing to do with the TV series except that it is set in the Highlands and has the same title. Most are out of print but all are worth the efford to find and read.
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