`All the tragedy and passion you could hope for. Brilliant.' Sarah Broadhurst,

`The author handles her characters with a sure touch'

This is the story of a family of whisky distillers from Perthshire: Charlotte, who gets engaged to Lieutenant Geoffrey Armitage as World War I breaks out, her sister Nell who has visions, brothers Peter, and Andrew - who gambles, and cousin Wonky. Their mother is dead and father, Murdo, has a heart condition. The war takes its toll on them as the men become soldiers and the women nurses. Andrew is in Ireland and involved in the 1916 Easter uprising. When his girlfriend and her family are killed by an Irish militant, he kills the man and his family, as well as six others. Geoffrey is wounded, becomes depressed and kills himself. As the war ends, they return to Scotland a different family and now must cope with the changes that have happened and those still to come...

A saga focusing on a family of whisky distillers from Perthshire. When the First World War breaks out it takes its toll on the family, as the men become soldiers and the women nurses. As the war ends they return to their home a different family and must face the changes that have happened and those yet to come. From the author of THE DAFFODIL SEA.

Emma Blair was born in Glasgow. She is the author of seventeen bestselling novels, including SCARLET RIBBONS with which she was shortlisted for the Romantic Novelist of the Year Award.

2001-07-01 the most gripping book ive ever read

this book is three stories in one, the Drummond family are split up in three directions dure to the war. the trenches in France, Ireland and back home keeping everything together for when everyone comes home! A close family even the continent cant keep thier love,passion, disirer and dispair away for long.