This author delves into the profound aspects of the human psyche and interpersonal relationships. Her style is recognized for its incisiveness and its ability to render complex emotions with remarkable nuance. Through each work, readers are immersed in thoughtfully crafted narratives that illuminate truths about the human condition. Her writing serves as an invitation to contemplate what it means to be human.
Jenny receives a proposal of marriage from a decent man, one that offers the obvious way to fulfil her duties to her family in Clydeside and to forget Robert, the fiance who left her for another woman and a new job. Then Robert returns to the shipyard at Dalkeith where Jenny works - as her new boss."
The death, a year before, of Weem Lowrie, husband to Jess and father to James, Bethany and Innes, has, in words that the fishing community of Buckie might use, left his wife and children adrift and rudderless. As well as being the head of the family and the centre of their lives, Weem also dominated his three children from birth and shaped them as he saw fit. Now that he has gone they must come to terms with what he has made of them. Frustrated and unhappy in the marriages that their father had forced them in to, James and Bethany must try and alter the course of their lives - James longs to take over his father's place and be skipper of the drifter but he is frustrated by his Uncle Albert, who keeps a tight grip on his own position of power. Bethany, meanwhile, longs to escape from the life all the local women lead and instead find an outlet for her pent-up ambitions and energy. Innes, the youngest, hates the sea and must find the courage to cope with his brother and sister's scorn. For Jess, change comes in the form of Jacob, her childhood sweetheart. Every bit as ambitious and charismatic as Weem was, he still wants Jess and is armed with the power and wealth to split her family apart...
MCADAM'S WOMEN: The day her husband Kenneth died, Isla McAdam's life changed dramatically, irrevocably - and shockingly. Kenneth, twenty years her senior, has left her with two children, no money and a shameful legacy. For just as Isla knew little about his business, she knew nothing at all about his other life - with another wife, another family, another existence... PEBBLES ON THE BEACH: Elspeth Bremner's thirteenth birthday was marked with both joy and sadness. The unexpected return of her two foster brothers, Lachlan and Thomas, granted a day's leave from their preparations for the hazardous trenches of France, was the best present Eslpeth could wish for. But it was also the anniversary of the death of Elspeth's natural mother Maisie - whose influence could still be seen in the reluctance of Elspeth's foster mother to accept the child as one of her own.
From wonderful storyteller Evelyn Hood comes two of her best-loved tales