Leigh takes over a croft in the hidden glen of Smirisary, Moidart, only reached by footpath or the unreliable sea. She spends the war years taming it, helped by the other crofters and hindered by the war and bureaucracy. We share her successes and failures as she struggles, often hilariously, with the hard work of crofting. Sadly, now, with crofters gone and the few remaining cottages second homes, this book is a kind of elegy for a past world.
(Annabel Bedini - bwl 108 Spring 2023 ) |
