Book description
Fresh from ministering to a poor parish in the slums of 1830's
Glasgow after a brief but distinguished career in a Scots regiment of
the British army, young Reverend Wyatt Jamieson takes up the ministry
of the Highland village of Eskaig. He is greeted with suspicion and
resentment by a community facing the destruction of its way of life by
the greed and ambition of its city bred factor, who is ruthlessly
determined to clear the fiercely independent Highlanders from the vast
lands he controls on behalf of an absent landlord. However, by his
support for them Wyatt wins the hearts of the people, whilst losing
his own to Mairi, a fiery, barefooted Highland girl.
E. V. Thompson was born in London, After spending nine years in the
Royal Navy, he served as a Vice Squad policeman in Bristol, became an
investigator for British Overseas Airways (during which time he was
seconded to the Hong Kong Police Narcotics Bureau), then headed
Rhodesia's Department of Civil Aviation Security Section. While in
Rhodesia, he published over two hundred short stories before moving back
to England to become a full-time award-winning writer. His first novel,
Chase the Wind, the opening book in the Retallick saga, won the Best
Historical Novel Award, and since then more than thirty novels have won
him thousands of admirers around the world.
