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Here, seen through the uninhibited eyes of eight-year-old Janet Sandison, is a vanished world-an isolated community living by its own unquestioned code of decency and integrity. Into this remote backwater come the 'Miss Boyds'-a clutch of flighty, townbred sisters. At first they are figures of fun, but the tragedy that overtakes them arouses all the compassion of the highland people. Full of humour, incident and colour, this delightful novel brings a forgotten era vividly to life, captures all a child's excitement as the world expands around her.
I'm so glad this OP series is now available electronically! Set in Highland Scotland, Janet is 8 in the beginning of the novel, & confused & frustrated by her family & community's use of the word "old maid."
My Friends the Miss Boyds | 
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