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Scottish BookThe Quarry Wood (Paperback)
Author: Nan Shepherd
£9.95
ScotlandUrban Gritty
The Quarry Wood follows Martha Ironside, a bright young woman from rural Scotland whose acceptance to university brings both pride and hostility from her family. As she pursues education and independence, she faces social expectations, intellectual awakening and the challenge of forging her own path. For readers of classic literary fiction about coming of age, ambition and women’s lives.
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When Martha accepts a place at university, she steps into a life her family cannot quite understand. Her decision is met with a mixture of hostility and pride, as if ambition is something to be tolerated rather than welcomed. In a time when such space was rarely given freely to women, Martha must find her own way into maturity and independence, and learn how to live with the intellectual and emotional demands that come with it.
The Quarry Wood follows her journey as she moves between home and the wider world opening up beyond it, negotiating expectations, loyalty, and the cost of choosing differently. Nan Shepherd’s prose is described as subtle, with intense and memorable descriptions of the natural world and a dry sense of humour, holding close to the textures of daily life as Martha tries to claim a future of her own.
Ninety years after first publication, it remains fresh and original.
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