Tag Archives: Scottish Highlands

‘The Leech and the Pearl’

Ann Lingard, writer, author novelist, UK

Synopsis Catherine Maitland was born in Madras to an Anglo-Indian mother and a British father but, unlike her pale-skinned mother, Catherine is brown. Sent ‘home’ to boarding-school, she endured loneliness, and then the trauma of her mother’s death. Later, when mining engineer Hugh Oates is attracted by her ‘difference’ she is happy to marry him […]

‘The Fiddler’s Leg’

Ann Lingard, writer, author novelist, UK

ISBN 0-7472-5297-1 Headline Review Published 1996 Available from Amazon  or from the author (contact me) Julian Kersland, a talented but crippled violinist and leader of a baroque ensemble in Glasgow, is the focus of the needs and theories of a diverse range of people. Early on, his school chaplain convinced him that the accident to […]