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LETTER FROM AMERICA tells of the life of Donald John who, in the years after the Great War, leaves Uist to work as a policeman, initially in Glasgow and later in New York.

The story tells of the twists and turns his life takes, of the man’s character, the questions he asks himself and the decisions he makes.

Donald John’s feelings and thoughts are very natural and affect most of us: love and hate, marriage and separation, deceit and violence, success and disappointment, good times and bad times.

The end of Letter from America is a reminder that, ‘As a man sows, so he must reap.’

Flora MacDonald was born and brought up in Benbecula. She has been bestowed with a creative imagination and takes her writing skills from one of her relations, the Rev. Angus MacDonald, one of the two authors who wrote the history of Clan Donald.

The Sandstone Meanmnach Series is aimed at Advanced Gaelic learners as well as accomplished readers. Recognising that most readers come from an English language background, they open with an introduction from the author that will contextualise and lead into the story. Other English language aids will appear as best fits. These stories are of novella length and so less daunting to the developing reader of Gaelic. They should serve as an intriguing introduction to longer works such as those published by the Gaelic Book Council under the Ùr-Sgeul colophon.

RRP: £7.95
ISBN: 978-1-905207-11-4

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