Lithgow by Chris Craig |
Type: eBook Genre: Historical Drama Publisher: Chris Craig Publication Date: 2011 Length: 260kb Cover: Padraig Designs Read: Excerpt Buy: Amazon Smashwords |
| Lithgow: an Australian historical novel telling the story of nineteenth century free settlers. The book follows a Scots family swept up by tides of change, struggling in a world forged in battle at Waterloo. Victims of social and economic turmoil in the old world, they seek a future in the new, but the same evils have followed them around the globe.
Hamish McCallum fought in the battle of Waterloo; one of the Gordon Highlanders. Wounded, he survived, only to fall victim to the economic and social upheavals sweeping Scotland in the nineteenth century. His son, Dougal, takes his young family to seek a life in the new world. Lithgow is a portrait of free settlers coming to Australia in the mid nineteenth century. It brings to life the turmoil that drove them from their homes, and the harshness of the new land awaiting them. It shows how, in trying to build a new life, they recreated the old one. |