One of Scotland's finest playwrights and poets shares his favourite childhood memories in this collection of stories. Set on and around Linmill farm, where the author was born and spent many summer holidays, this collection of Robert McLennan's stories is a beautiully-crafted evocation of a childhood spent in the fertile Clyde Valley in the early 20th century.
Whether you grew up in the 1990s, 1960s or the 1920s, Robert McLellan's Linmill Stories will leave you nostalgic for days spent making scones with Granny, and walks with Grandad back when you were so wee you had to be lifted over every stream.
This must rank [among] the finest prose-poetry of Scottish childhood that
we have.
DOUGLAS GIFFORD
It is possible to find light and depth in each of these stories, yet their common engine is neither plot nor character, but McLellan 's use of language. It is hard not to agree with J. K Annand's final assessment that Robert McLellan is 'the greatest writer of Scots prose in the twentieth century'.
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McLellan describes the misadventures of a Lanarkshire boy with hilarity and compassion. Like the great fables, there is a moral in every tale... Several stories had me "laughin' ma ankles off!" This is a must-have addition to the libraries of Scots the world o'er and those who love the Scots.
AMAZON REVIEW
