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Border Air #2
Another Breath of Border Air
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First published May 15, 1978
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About the author
Lavinia Derwent
88 books4 followersLavinia Derwent (1909 – 1989) was the pen name of Scottish author and broadcaster Elizabeth Dodd MBE.
She was born in an isolated farmhouse in the Cheviot hills some seven miles from Jedburgh. She began making up stories about animals at an early age. Her most famous creation was "Tammy Troot" who entranced generations of children. She also wrote a best-selling book about an island called Sula which later featured in a film. The novels were: Sula (1969), Return to Sula (1971), The Boy From Sula (1973) and Song of Sula (1976). She also wrote a version of Greyfriars Bobby (1985). Her autobiographical books, particularly A Breath of Border Air recreate a world when it was the more fundamental things of life that mattered. Her Border Bairn series is set around Jedburgh, and Lady of the Manse has a Berwickshire setting. She wrote the wee kirk moose poem.
In the 1970s she co-presented the television series Teatime Tales (alternating with Molly Weir and Cliff Hanley) on STV in which she recollected stories from her own childhood.
She was born in an isolated farmhouse in the Cheviot hills some seven miles from Jedburgh. She began making up stories about animals at an early age. Her most famous creation was "Tammy Troot" who entranced generations of children. She also wrote a best-selling book about an island called Sula which later featured in a film. The novels were: Sula (1969), Return to Sula (1971), The Boy From Sula (1973) and Song of Sula (1976). She also wrote a version of Greyfriars Bobby (1985). Her autobiographical books, particularly A Breath of Border Air recreate a world when it was the more fundamental things of life that mattered. Her Border Bairn series is set around Jedburgh, and Lady of the Manse has a Berwickshire setting. She wrote the wee kirk moose poem.
In the 1970s she co-presented the television series Teatime Tales (alternating with Molly Weir and Cliff Hanley) on STV in which she recollected stories from her own childhood.
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February 6, 2019
This is the second book, I think, of the author’s memoirs of her life in rural - very rural -Scotland in the early 20th century. (Her father acquires a “Tin Lizzie” in this story. ) The author appears to be about 11 years old during this book, although she never actually tells us.
She’s a country girl, but has just started school in a town 7 miles from their farm. Getting to school involves a considerable hike to a bus stop. She finds the people in town somewhat perplexing - there are just so many people there!
It sounds like she led a hard, lonely life. Even though she was the daughter of “the Boss,” she certainly wasn’t spoiled or cosseted.
It’s a gently amusing short read, and paints a picture of a time and place which now would be nearly unrecognizable to most of us.
She’s a country girl, but has just started school in a town 7 miles from their farm. Getting to school involves a considerable hike to a bus stop. She finds the people in town somewhat perplexing - there are just so many people there!
It sounds like she led a hard, lonely life. Even though she was the daughter of “the Boss,” she certainly wasn’t spoiled or cosseted.
It’s a gently amusing short read, and paints a picture of a time and place which now would be nearly unrecognizable to most of us.
November 19, 2008
The sequel to A Breath of Border Air, the author is surrounded by colourful and often hilarious local characters like Jock-the-herd, Auld Baldy-Heid and her old friend Jessie.
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