The Jacobite Lass

Name: The Jacobite Lass
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Janet MacLeod Trotter
ISBN: 9781407962313

Author: Janet MacLeod Trotter

Narrator: Lesley Mackie

Unabridged: 13 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Soundings

Published: 06/01/2016

Categories: Fiction, Sagas

Synopsis

Scotland, 1722: on a windswept island an enigmatic poetess foretells tragedy and the birth of an extraordinary child. That child is the free-spirited Flora, daughter of Marion. When her father dies, Flora and her mother are plunged into poverty. Until her mother’s former lover takes them to Skye where he swiftly marries Marion. When the Clanranalds are invited to a grand wedding in Skye, Flora finds herself irresistibly drawn to Allan of Kingsburgh, one of the mighty Skye MacDonalds. Before affairs of the heart can be resolved, the exiled Prince Charles Stuart lands on the Outer Isles and his arrival ignites the Jacobite Rising of 1745. Scotland is plunged into bloody civil war and Flora’s fate is changed forever.

About Janet MacLeod Trotter

Janet MacLeod Trotter is the author of numerous bestselling and acclaimed novels, including The Hungry Hills, which was nominated for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, and The Tea Planter’s Daughter, which was nominated for the Romantic Novelists’ Association Novel of the Year Award. Much informed by her own experiences, Macleod Trotter was raised in the north-east of England by Scottish parents and travelled in India as a young woman. She recently discovered diaries and letters belonging to her grandparents, who married in Lahore and lived and worked in the Punjab for nearly thirty years, which served as her inspiration for the India Tea Series. She now divides her time between Northumberland and the Isle of Skye.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Robert

The Jacobite Lass takes us back to the last frontier in the battles between the English and the Highland Clans. It begins on Benbecula in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, the same island that a Flybe (or FlyMaybe, as locals refer to the small airlines) flight lands on the beach, weather and tides permitti......more

Goodreads review by Michelle Irwin

Gusto and bravery Excellent story! The main character, flora, when young will never refuse a challenge and becomes infamous as an adult while waiting faithfully for her childhood crush to return. Although he puts her second at best in his priorities. All good things come to those who wait...flora an......more

Goodreads review by Jessica

Wishing for a sequel I didn't want this book to end. It was a beautiful fictional interpretation of a great historical figure. But it ended while she was still young. Would loved to have read more of her adventures.......more

Goodreads review by Dolores

I really enjoyed this tale spun from the deeds of a real historical character, so much so I went on to read all books in the series, I later looked up Flora Mc Donald, and found her on Wikipedia, together with reproductions of paintings done of her during her lifetime. I was disappointed to see she......more