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Merrybegotten (Paperback)
by Fiona Williamson Pearson (Author)
5.0 out of 5 stars  (1 customer review)
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  • Paperback: 312 pages
  • Publisher: Kennedy And Boyd (30 Jul 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1904999042
  • ISBN-13: 978-1904999041
  • Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 888,605 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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Hard landscapes and hard work provide the background for this tapestry of life and death. Fatalism, joy and blind emotion play havoc with the harsh realities expected on these islands, sewn like diamonds across the waters north-east of mainland Scotland. Romance is chaperoned by economic necessity, constrained by the difficulties of travel, and released by the serendipitous accidents of mortality. Unremitting hope brightens the simple lives of three generations of island folk. The persistent need to locate her family with a sense of time and place in a wider context led Fiona Pearson on a personal Odyssey. One result was a journal and sketchbook of the Northern Isles. An accomplished artist gradually became a novice script-writer, and subsequently a novelist. Fiona lives with her family in Yorkshire, England.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Merrybegotten, 3 May 2005
A wonderfully engaging family tale of life, love and loyalties in the Orkney Islands and Fair Isle far off the northern coastline of Scotland. Researched family history is blended imaginative suppostions to create a delightfully woven story of an island lass in the 1800s, her parents, siblings and how she came to have a sizeable family of her own....but no husband. Living back then is more often though of as being long hours toiling in fields or tending farm animals. Simplicity is seldom simple.

I found the story quick & easy to read, and delightfully engaging as it unfolded. Line drawings of the Author adorn the first page of each section, I wish there were more of them. Fiona - you've given me an idea of what island life was surely like....your pen drips with scenery and society. Thank you !!!

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