Of Lands High and Low

by Martha Keyes

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2020 Whitney Award Winner

Scotland 1794

For more than twenty years, the Lowland village of Craigmuir has been untouched by smallpox, leaving the people vulnerable to a painful lesson on the price of belonging, belief, and survival.

Isla Findlay belongs nowhere. The daughter of a disgraced woman and the Highlander who abandoned them both, she tries to be a dutiful niece to the uncle who has taken her in, blending into the village as best she can. But when a young Highlander's arrival in the area coincides with an outbreak of dreaded smallpox, it stirs up questions about Isla's past and forces a confrontation between the beliefs she holds and the community she wants to belong to.

Dr. Graeme MacNeill killed the only patient he ever had: his own father. The only way he can think to atone is to cut all ties from the Lowland world his father hated—including his education as a physician—and embrace the Highland heritage he used to be ashamed of. He travels to Craigmuir to sell the unwanted estate he has inherited from an uncle and return home, but fate—and the red-headed young woman he encounters in the village—have no intention of letting him leave things so easily behind.

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Book Details

Genre

Historical Romance

Subgenre

General Historical, Georgian (1714–1837), Scottish

Audience

Adult

Bell Peppers

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Profanity

2 Mild

Violence

2 Mild

Drugs, Alcohol, Tobacco

2 Mild

Publication Date

October 17, 2020

Language Versions

English

Narration Type

Human

Fiction Form

Novel

So Good So Different

This is an amazing book. Superbly researched it teaches us of life in Scotland in the 18th. Century and the devastating results of disease, religious infatuation and prejudice. No sword wielding lairds ready to save the damsel in distress here. Just the most wonderful story of two people who believed and saved lives. Well done Martha Keyes. Loved the cover. Your best I think.

Great enjoyable book

I thoroughly enjoyed this, I loved the different relationships that were covered and the journey the people took in their road to healing. Well written and well worth a read.

Fascinating look at beginnings of vaccination for the pox in Scotland

Loved the love story along with historical detail

Interesting Read

This is such an interesting, well researched book. There are several elements to it. The animosity between the Scottish lowlands people and the HIghlanders combined with the strong feelings they had against those who were Catholic. There is a gentle love story between a graduate doctor from the Highlands, who can forgive others but needs to forgive himself, and a girl who battles to be accepted because she is illegitimate and her unknown father is from the Highlands.. Overriding all this is the story of smallpox epidemics and the battle for a way to prevent it. This book gives us a glimpse of the horror of the disease and the wonder of a vaccine that can prevent it. In 2020 we are battling another disease and searching for a vaccine so we can stop it's terrible effects so this book, written about a different era, is strangely topical.

A story ser in Scotland of two people overcoming prejudice to be together.

A novel set in Scotland, tackling with great empathy the horrors of Smallpox, whilst keeping the readers interest with the tale of a two people ment for each other but who must overcome prejudice and opposition before a happy ending. I was hooked from the first chapter. Martha Keyes never disappoints in her books and always seems to find new and interesting settings for her books.