Ashley stared in pleasant wonderment at the girl wearing a similar style of dress to that of his sister, with deliciously tantalising blonde hair taken back and put in ringlets, at the blue eyes, the pretty little mouth.
After the First World War, two final stragglers return to North East Scotland to pick up their old lives: Mary Cowie, once a 'gutter quine' or fish gutter, who served with the Elsie Inglis Scottish Women's Hospitals field units; and Neil ...