The Longest Journey

by Betty Mc Innes (Author)

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  Paperback
  2010

  $6.22

  A Scottish historical saga of exile, disaster, secrets . . . and love - The Scottish Highlands, 1848. Mary-Ann Macgregor s life is full of quiet contentment with her husband Ewan. But when her son Davey befriends a new arrival to the village, Janet, he sets in a motion a disastrous chain of events. Harshly punished for a minor crime, Ewan and Davey are sentenced to exile in Australia. Mary-Ann is determined to keep her family together, but her past is catching up with her, and soon her children will know the secret she has tried so hard to keep . . .

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  Hardcover
  2009

  $6.24

  The Scottish Highlands, 1848. Mary-Ann Macgregor considers herself fortunate. A married woman with five children and a comfortable home, her life is full of quiet contentment. It feels like an age since, at just seventeen, she married Ewan Macgregor, a Scottish blacksmith, for whom she felt affection but not love. In sorrow, shame and desperation she had hastily married a good man who deserved better. Yet, strangely enough, for fifteen years they have lived together quite happily. But when her son, Davey, befriends a new arrival to the village - Janet, who is poor but prepossessing - he sets in a motion a chain of events that leads to disaster. Harshly punished for a minor crime, Ewan and Davey are sentenced to exile in Australia, and the family face ruin. Mary-Ann is determined to keep her family together - whatever the cost - but her past is catching up with her, and soon her children will know the secret she has tried so hard to keep ...