The braid

Type

Book

Authors

Frost, Helen

ISBN 13

9780374309626

Tags

families, Immigrant Families, Scottish Immigrants, Immigration and emigration, islands, ocean travel, Separated Friends, relatives, Separated sisters, separation, Sisters. Teenage girls, Teenagers

Abstract

Two Scottish sisters, living on the western island of Barra in the 1850s, relate, in alternate voices and linked narrative poems, their experiences after their family is forcible evicted and separated with one sister accompanying their parents and younger siblings to Cape Breton, Canada, and the other staying behind with other family on the small island of Mingulay.

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