A Dark and Distant Shore by Reay Tannahill ISBN 9781781859025, 9781781859032, 1781859035, 1781859027 instant download

A Dark and Distant Shore by Reay Tannahill ISBN 9781781859025, 9781781859032, 1781859035, 1781859027 instant download

Reay Tannahill's great bestseller is the story of an extraordinary woman's determination to win back her birthright - the remote and beautiful West Highland castle of Kinveil - sold by her father to a Glasgow merchant when she was seven years old.

It is also the intricate picture of a family in the heyday of the British Empire, an epic story spanning almost a hundred years and stretching from Edinburgh to the Crimea, from an expanding America to the India of the Raj.

Kinveil is the castle, set above a swirling sea. Vilia is the woman determined to reclaim it, as it once belonged to her family. From the day she left in 1803, Vilia fought to repossess her birthright - whatever it cost.

Reay Tannahill's full-blooded, sweeping story spans ninety years and myriad backdrops of the bustling, far-flung Victorian empire. At its heart is the call of the mist-decked Scottish Highlands and the indomitable will of an unforgettable woman born long before her time.

'An ancient brooding castle... a dispossessed child... a lifelong passion for one errant man... wars, crises and feuds... ' WASHINGTON POST.