The House That is Our Own by O. Douglas (GT955)

Circa 1951: Hardcover / Very Good Condition

Original brown cloth with gilt titles on the spine. 314 clean and bright slightly age-toned pages, mild speckled endpapers and edges. Boards slightly rubbed with time consistent with age. A compact pocket-size.(GT955)

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The story starts in London, where two friends Kitty Baillie and Isobel Logan live in Isobel's hotel room. Kitty has been mourning her husband's death for some time, and both of them start to feel the need for a change in order to move on with their lives. Kitty wants to stay in London and rents a place, while Isobel goes to Scotland where she falls in love with an old historic house in the Scottish borders.

Born Anna Masterton Buchan, younger sister to the statesman & prolific novelist John Buchan. She began writing in 1911, and published 12 novels and a personal memoir of her brother before her death. Her novels are humorous domestic fiction, focusing on the lives of families in Scotland. Her autobiography was published posthumously, in 1960.

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