Distaff Side

McGrath Saga #3

by Frances Paige

In this third volume of the McGrath saga, the younger generation spread their wings in the dawning freedom of the new twentieth century.Rich in passion, drama and atmosphere, its characters as real as the rolling countryside they inhabit, The Distaff Side is a moving saga of love and loss, of joy and despair, that follows the fortunes of the McGraths through Scotland, America, France and Ireland. New readers will discover one of the truly great family sagas, while those familiar with the earlier books will be delighted to meet again old and much-loved friends.

320 pages, Hardcover

First published December 31, 1988

About the author

Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Frances Paige has lived near the Lake District, in the North West England for many years. She paints and writes, and has completed over fourty novels. She is also known under the pseudonyms Jane Wallace and Jay Allerton. In 1975, her novel "Vote for a Silk Gown" won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association. She went on to write many more novels as well as a Scottish saga which, it has been said, redefined the sub-genre and made her a model for budding authors everywhere.