Apricot Sky Ferguson Ruby
Apricot Sky Ferguson Ruby "I'm haunted by an awful dread," said Raine. The bridegroom never turned up and the bride swooned at the altar." "Have you practised swooning?"It's 1948 in the Scottish…
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Apricot Sky Ferguson Ruby
"I'm haunted by an awful dread," said Raine. The bridegroom never turned up and the bride swooned at the altar." "Have you practised swooning?"It's 1948 in the Scottish Highlands, with postwar austerity and rationing in full effect, but Mr and Mrs MacAlvey and their family and friends are too irrepressibly cheerful to let it get them down. "It was a wedding Mysie once went to.
There are also three MacAlvey grandchildren, orphaned in the war, whose hilarious mishaps keep everyone on their toes. There's Raine, newly engaged to the brother of a local farmer, and Cleo, just back from three years in the States, along with their brother James, married to neurotic Trina, who smothers their two oversheltered children. There are wedding preparations, visits from friends, an adventurous hike, and frustrated romance.
But really the plot of the novel is, simply, life,