A Modest Harmony

About the Book

A Brooklyn family buys a stone cottage beside a loch in Scotland and summers in the lonely hills.

Witty and passionate...the little society scattered across the lonely hills is rightly set against its ancient and recent history...this wise book...entertainingly observant...Perthshire winds, voices, birdsong, silences...weeks spent in reading, (no TV, no radio)

A resonant book...in lucid prose she shows how the Scots preserve and guard the spirit of an older world against the intrusion of modern life.

I was enchanted by this story of seven summers in a Scottish Glen...shepherds, townspeople, farmers, lairds…Sheila Gordon is perceptive, lyrical...humorous

About the Author

Sheila Gordon is the author of novels, a memoir, and young adult fiction which has been translated into many languages and received U.S. and international awards. She has published in the Atlantic Monthly, Antaeus, and in the New York Times.