ANOTHER TIME, ANOTHER PLACE

JESSIE KESSON

CLASSIC FICTION
MAY 2003
1 873631 71 5
144 pp.
5.99
198 x 129 mm, PAPERBACK


In the summer of 1944, three Italian prisoners of war are billeted in a remote village in the north-east of Scotland. For most of the locals, their arrival is of little interest, hardly disturbing the quiet routines of their isolated crofting comminity. But for the young farm-workers wife who has to look after them, the Italians bring with them a tantalising glimpse of another, more exotic world, reawakening dreams of a future far removed from the harsh realities of crofting life.

A moving portrayal of the tragic consequences of a clash of cultures, Another Time, Another Place is a haunting tale of love and war from one of Scotlands finest authors.

Her writing is marked by an elegant economy of language and a sharp understanding of country communities
Trevor Royle