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The Quarry Wood

English

By (author): Nan Shepherd

When Martha accepts a place at university, her decision is met with a mixture of hostility and pride by her uncomprehending family. This is the story of a young woman's journey to maturity and independence, struggling to cope with the intellectual and emotional challenges that surround her, at a time when such space was rarely given freely to women.

In The Quarry Wood, Nan Shepherd's subtle prose is matched with intense and memorable descriptions of the natural world, and a dry sense of humour. Ninety years after the first publication, it remains as fresh and original today.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 168g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 04 Jan 2018
  • Publisher: Canongate Books
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781786891624

About Nan Shepherd

Anna (Nan) Shepherd was born in 1893 and died in 1981. Closely attached to Aberdeen and her native Deeside she graduated from her home university in 1915 and for the next forty-one years worked as a lecturer in English. An enthusiastic gardener and hill-walker she made many visits to the Cairngorms with students and friends. She also travelled further afield - to Norway France Italy Greece and South Africa - but always returned to the house where she was raised and where she lived almost all of her adult life in the village of West Cults three miles from Aberdeen on North Deeside. To honour her legacy in 2016 Nan Shepherd's face was added to the Royal Bank of Scotland five-pound note.

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