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PUBLISHER: Pan Macmillan
FORMAT: Hardback
ISBN: 9781447297994
RRP: £16.99
PAGES: 304
PUBLICATION DATE:
June 18, 2015
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My Friends the Hungry Generation
It was a long journey from the West Indies to Scotland – but Janet’s holiday turned out to be unforgettable …It was a wrench for Janet to leave her husband behind-but Twice’s heart condition did not permit him to leave the West Indies. So she set off to Scotland without him, to spend a holiday with her family-her brother Jock, his wife and their three lively children, Liz, Duncan and George. Having to take their mother’s place while she is in hospital, Janet finds the Hungry Generation almost too much for her …but stories of her childhood at Reachfar prove the first step towards a surprising alliance …
Jane Duncan
Born in Scotland in 1910, Jane Duncan spent her childhood in Glasgow, going for holidays to the Black Isle of Inverness. After taking her degree at Glasgow University she moved to England in 1931, and when war broke out she was commissioned in the WAAF and worked in Photographic Intelligence. After the war she moved to the West Indies with her husband, who appears as ‘Twice’ Alexander in her novels. Shortly after he husband’s death, she returned to Jemimaville near Cromarty, not far from her grandparents’ croft which inspired the beloved ‘Reachfar’. Jane Duncan died in 1976.