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The Heather Moon

C. N. and A. M. Williamson

The Heather Moon

Paper book: €53.99

Digital: €14.99

Original publication
1912
Bilingual edition
12 June 2026
Pages
907
Difficulty
Easy
Genres
Romance
Moods
Fall in love, Escape it all
Translated from
English

Book summary

Eighteen-year-old Barrie MacDonald grows up near Carlisle with a stern grandmother who hates the theatre and has let her believe that her mother is dead. The day Barrie learns that her mother, an actress, is very much alive, she runs away to find her. On the way she meets a rich Scotsman back from America, who takes her on a motoring tour of Scotland.

A fresh romantic comedy, with the roads and landscapes of Scotland as its backdrop.

Told partly by Barrie herself, the story is easy to read in the language you are learning.

The plot

A girl who has never taken a train. Morning. Barrie, eighteen, slips into her grandmother’s forbidden attic and finds her mother’s dresses there.

The world of the book

A tour of Scotland by motor car. The novel is set in the early 20th century, when few people own a motor car. Barrie, the heroine, and her new friends drive across Scotland, from village to village. It is August, and…

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