The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle
ABOUT
THE BOOK
The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle is a multi-generational story of love and belonging set on the Scottish island of Arran.
Elizabeth Pringle lived all her long life on the Scottish island of Arran. But did anyone really know her? In her will she leaves her beloved house, Holmlea, to a stranger – a young mother she’d seen pushing a pram down the road over thirty years ago. It now falls to Martha, once the baby in that pram, to answer the question: why?
A captivating story of the richness behind so-called ordinary lives and the secrets and threads that hold women together.
NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS
The novel is a fascinating hymn to the beauty of soil and sea, and manifold ties linking human beings to these elements. The book of impressive warmth and insight is marked by the striking precision and expressive force of its narrative manner and style which make some slight drawbacks of the plot unimportant.