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About the Book

Chester Royde, an American millionaire, travels to Scotland with his new bride Carrie and sister Myrtle, to find out more about Carrie’s Scottish ancestry. Their new ‘relatives’ turn out to be a little more authentically Scottish than they bargained for. Ben Nevis, Laird of Glenbogle Castle, is fiercely protective of his lands and the Macdonald clan spirit, but being cash-strapped he’s not above attempts to marry heiress Myrtle to one of his many brawny sons. But then a group of hikers stumble onto his moor and spoil a day’s hunting, sparking all-out war between gentry and commoners.

About the Author

Compton Mackenzie was born in West Hartlepool in 1883, and educated at St Paul’s School and Magdalen College, Oxford. During the First World War he rose to the rank of Captain in the Royal Marines, and he was made Director of the Aegean Intelligence Service. He wrote more than ninety books – novels, history and biography, essays and criticism, children’s stories and verse – and was also an outstanding broadcaster. He founded and edited the magazine The Gramophone, and was President of the Siamese Cat Club. He lived for many years on the Island of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, but later settled in Edinburgh. He was knighted in 1952. Compton Mackenzie died in 1972.

OTHER WORKS BY COMPTON MACKENZIE

Whisky Galore

Dedication

To
Pilot Officer Robert Boothby, M.P., R.A.F.

My dear Bob,

I do not propose to involve myself with any institution or any individual by saying why I particularly choose this moment to dedicate to you a farce; but I want to commemorate a friendship of twenty years, and this dedication gives me a chance to say how precious that friendship has been, is and always will be to

Yours ever,

COMPTON MACKENZIE.

SUIDHEACHAN,
ISLAND OF BARRA,
JULY 14, 1941.

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Chapter 1

GLENBOGLE

INADEQUATE INDEED WOULD be the guidebook or traveller’s tale that did not accord to Glenbogle a place of honour in the very forefront of Highland scenery and romance, and it is a tribute to Scottish thoroughness that no such guidebook exists. Here are a page or two from Summer Days Among the Heather: