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PUBLISHER: Birlinn General

FORMAT: Paperback

ISBN: 9781841580210

RRP: £7.99

PAGES: 200

PUBLICATION DATE:
October 1, 1999

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To the Edge of the Sea: Memoirs of a Crofter’s Child

Christina Hall

This text is a memoir of the author’s childhood in the 1940s and 1950s on South Uist. It analyses the hardships of her life up to the end of secondary school, also interweaving the culture, characters and events of the various islands during the era of her story.

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