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.
Master Mariner: A Novel
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 ...