The Heather-Moon by C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

Description

The Heather-Moon is the Williamsons’ 1912 novel, and the name is theirs too: the heather moon is the August moon, rising gold over a purple hillside, the season when love blooms. The story belongs to Barrie Macdonald, eighteen, red-haired and full of forbidden dreams, locked away in Hillard House near Carlisle with her grim grandmother and the family’s sharp-tongued devotion to duty.

When the garret door is left unlocked for the first time in her life, Barrie climbs the stairs and finds her mother’s hidden things — and learns the woman she was told died long ago is alive, and an actress besides. She runs for the truth, and the book sets off across Scotland with two travelling companions from the liner: her new friend and her brother, and the millionaire artist Somerled, who knows a thing or two about dreaming with the lights out. The route winds by Dunelin Castle and the islands, and Barrie’s own heather-moon has come to look for her.

Why it lingers

• A heroine whose hunger for wonder the book never mocks.
• The Scottish Highlands as a fourth character, described with real feeling.
• A family secret unwound at a heroine’s pace, not a villain’s.

About This DodaBooks Edition

This EPUB carries the whole text — 26 chapters and sections — in clean modern type with a linked contents list, a navigable index, and pages that adjust beautifully whether you read on a pocket phone or a large-screen reader.