Home
Beyond the Blue (Random House $29.95)
In Andrea MacPherson's second novel, Beyond the Blue (Random House $29.95), four women in the Scottish mill town of Dundee struggle to survive in 1918.
Set during a period when many men are absent due to World War One, the story chiefly concerns Morag, who works in the jute mill, her two daughters, Caro and Wallis, as well as Morag's orphaned niece Imogen. While Wallis works with her mother at the mill and painstakingly saves her money in order to escape from Dundee, her beautiful sister Caro hopes to free herself via a calculated love affair.Beyond the Blue incorporates the suffragette movement, an influenza epi- demic and historical events such as the Tay Bridge disaster and the Easter Uprising. MacPherson's grandmother grew up in Dundee across the street from the Bowbridge Works jute mill, where MacPherson's great-grandmother worked.
0-679-31422-9
[BCBW 2007]
Set during a period when many men are absent due to World War One, the story chiefly concerns Morag, who works in the jute mill, her two daughters, Caro and Wallis, as well as Morag's orphaned niece Imogen. While Wallis works with her mother at the mill and painstakingly saves her money in order to escape from Dundee, her beautiful sister Caro hopes to free herself via a calculated love affair.Beyond the Blue incorporates the suffragette movement, an influenza epi- demic and historical events such as the Tay Bridge disaster and the Easter Uprising. MacPherson's grandmother grew up in Dundee across the street from the Bowbridge Works jute mill, where MacPherson's great-grandmother worked.
0-679-31422-9
[BCBW 2007]
Submitted on June 12, 2007 in By David.
