A Scottish Lass

by Fiona Roberts

This book tells the story of the childhood of Jean Gillespie, a Scottish lass who touched many lives and brought laughter and happiness everywhere she could.Born into a Scottish seafaring family in 1899, Jean Logan Gillespie's childhood encompassed many of the significant, defining events of the early part of the twentieth century.Although born in Antwerp, Jean's childhood was divided between Scotland, New York (briefly), and Liverpool. Expelled from school in the USA, under circumstances which most would now find amusing, she was sent back to her beloved Scotland where she lived happily for several years. But when her father's work necessitated the family's relocation to England Jean moved reluctantly with her parents to Liverpool.The catastrophic losses of the Titanic and the Lusitania, both of which had significant connections to Liverpool and its people, touched her young life, but the tragic sinking of RMS Empress of Ireland decimated that life, for a very personal reason.Jean Gillespie lived through the trauma of the First World War in Liverpool, with its food shortages and riots, but the war opened up the possibility of a more equal society; a society in which women were offered the opportunity of meaningful work, as they filled the gaps left by the men who went to war. Jean belonged to the generation which grasped that opportunity and spanned the divide between the old order and the new.

103 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 13, 2021

About the author

I come from a family of clairvoyants and sailors, so I suppose it's no surprise that I have travelled quite a bit, nor that I now work as a Medium/psychic.
I lived 10 years in Paris early on, teaching English - enjoyed every moment of it! I began writing then.
I ran an agency promoting the work of mediums, psychics and clairvoyants when I got back to England.
In 2009 Tod (my lovely husband) and I spent 5 months in a remote village in the Himalayas of Nepal teaching English. That was an eye opening life changer!
We have been back twice, and plan to go again soon.
Tod and I have allotments and grow fruit and vegetables, and we have a flock of ex battery chickens, and a fantastic rescue dog called Buzz.
Oh, and I spend quite a lot of time writing!