The Quality of Mercy

by EileenRamsay (Author)

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  1997

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  Ferelith, born out of wedlock and brought up in an orphanage, decides on a career in law - a bold choice for a woman in 1930s Edinburgh. Her marriage to a fellow student ends in disaster with a revelation about her origins and she buries herself in her studies. But love hasn't finished with her.

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  Paperback
  2002

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  THE QUALITY OF MERCY - As an orphan waif growing up in a Glasgow convent before the warm Ferelith Gallagher was used to going her own way in life and dreamed of being Scotland's first female legal advocate. An early, disastrous marriage makes her bury her head in her studies and forsake the attentions of the eligible men in whose circles she moves. Yet if love has not finished with her for good, is it possible she can still have it all? HARVEST OF COURAGE - Blissfully happy in the countryside of her birth, Mairi McLoughlin was content to marry a farmer's son. Her brother Ian feels destined to be more than a farmer and is envious of his friend Robin's academic prowess. With the outbreak of war, Robin's romantic spirit is crushed in the horror of Ypres and Ian, a conscientious objector, sees the world in ways he had never dreamed. As Mairi works the land, harvesting continues across the fields of France - the harvest of human lives...