Growing Up

by Frances Paige

Glasgow, Scotland. 1939. On the eve of war, Mirrin Stewart, a newly qualified young teacher, is too absorbed in her own troubles to pay much attention to world affairs. Having lost her mother to cancer at a tender age, she must now face up to the fact that her beloved father is getting older, and needs her care. She has neither the time nor the inclination, it seems, for love or romance. But then two very different young men enter her life: first, Jack Drummond, a farmer from her father's home village. Then Jamie Campbell, a couple of years younger than Mirrin, educated, interesting and, like her, an only child. Over the next few months Mirrin belatedly grows up and, ultimately, discovers her true self.

188 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 2005

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.

Reviews

[Sybil · Rating 3 out of 5]

The title of this book is appropriate. "Growing Up" is a story of a woman's life after college in Scotland before and during WWII.