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A real classic among Highland books, "A Croft in the Hills" captures, in simple, moving descriptions, what it was really like trying to make a living out of a hill croft fifty years ago. A couple and their young daughter, fresh from city life, immerse themselves in the practicalities of looking after sheep, cattle and hens, mending fences, baking bread and surviving the worst that Scottish winters can throw at them.
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Katharine Stewart was born in 1914 in Reading. Following the Second World War and after a spell running a hotel in Edinburgh she movedwith her husband, Sam Stewart, and daughter Hilda, to the croft at Abriachan near Loch Ness, where she began her writing career with A Croftin the Hills. Later she trained as a teacher before, on the death of her husband, becoming the local postmistress at Abriachan. She died in2013 and is survived by her daughter, Hilda.
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Katharine Stewart's memories are, as she says herself a tale of other times, almost a glimpse of legend... evocative and charming (Scottish Book Collector)
Katharine Stewart's narrative style... is delightfully engaging, her prose almost conversational. The reader, like a house guest, has little chance but to become wholeheartedly involved (Topical Books)
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Katharine Stewart's narrative style... is delightfully engaging, her prose almost conversational. The reader, like a house guest, has little chance but to become wholeheartedly involved (Topical Books)
Written with great charm (Books in Scotland)
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