Clap Hands For The Singing Molecatcher

Product Details

ISBN: 9781841585956
Publisher: Birlinn
Publication Date: 15 April 2007
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Pages: 168 p.

About the Book

Laughter, tragedy and dramatic incident thread their way through the life of a growing boy and the lives of the people he observes. Roderick Grant's book is not merely one of nostalgic recall. It is a richly evocative memoir of a time and place when horses still drew ploughs and children walked seven miles or more each day to reach their school; and where shepherd and gamekeeper, farmer and labourer, forester, railway worker, teacher, laird and minister, and their families, were all part of a community, close-knit in its isolation from the changing post-war world.