`You looked for a moment as if you might be going to smile at me,' he remarked. `But I see I was mistaken; I suspect your smiles are precious and you hoard them so they are seen only by very special people.'
Anna is a child living in a remote Hebridean community when she meets the enigmatic and romantic Jimmy Pearl. She carries the memory of their meeting through to adult life - a life that is full of hardships. Anna's parents die and her brother and his wife sell the family croft, forcing Anna into a loveless marriage with the heartless Fergus. Anna, however, doesn't reckon on the return of Jimmy Pearl . . .
`A fine novel . . . both moving and compelling' Angus County Press
- ISBN10 0099534304
- ISBN13 9780099534303
- Publish Date 17 March 1988 (first published 23 October 1986)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 August 1992
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Cornerstone
- Imprint Arrow Books Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 192
- Language English