Far From the Rowan Tree - Margaret Gillies Brown

The outstandingly successful Far from the Rowan Tree is the story of the Gillies family's brave migration to Canada in the 1950s. Facing the harshness and contrasts of life in the Prairie lands of Alberta, like many immigrants, the Gillies made out against the odds.

Margaret Gillies Brown writes simply and movingly about the ebb and flow of life as a farmer's wife. Her's is an inspiring account of what superficially is an ordinary life. And although the Canada experience could be dismissed as only a short interlude, Canada and the experience of migration live on in her children.

Reviews

". . . a classic of Scottish autobiography"
Duncan Glen

"brilliant insight"
The Big Issue

"you can't help but warm to this"
Farmers Weekly

"pioneers like these are the kind of Scots we should hear more about"
The Local News (Govanhill & Gorbals)

"an easily readable style, the book is an uplifting experience"
Fife & Kinross Extra

"I loved this book because of the atmosphere it creates"
Elizabeth Sutherland Scots Magazine

"a heart-warming story"
The Leopard

"compellingly personal, (a) vivid portrait"
Scotland on Sunday