Far Other Wor's

The Western Coast of Scotia, 1135Can one escape one's past and invent a new future?Young widow Ailsa runs her family's estate and dreams of leaving her duties behind for just one summer voyaging to the far ports of Ireland with her cousin Dugald. But Dugald claims the times are too dangerous and leaves her behind. When a messenger arrives from the new Scots king, announcing that she and her estate Caerwyn have been granted to a landless English knight, a furious Ailsa vows to keep her lands. Ailsa's struggle to keep her home will lead her on a journey to the king's castle at Carlisle and to a new understanding of the turmoil and changes coming to the Western Coast and Isles. For the king favors English and French customs, and the old Gaelic ways and rights, like the right of a woman to inherit, or to choose who she will marry, are falling away. Can Ailsa ensure the safety of Caerwyn's people, and find a way to escape the king's enforced marriage? At the king's castle, as all the old truths are overturned, Ailsa learns much about the frightening realities of power and the turmoil coming. She meets the elegant suitor Hugh, friendly Effie, and overpowering Beatrice. And she encounters the enigmatic Sir Robert, who surprises her at each turn. When the compelling storyteller Eachna comes to Carlisle, Ailsa learns something about the courage that creativity and imagination demand. Can she imagine a future that will save Caerwyn's people and ensure her own dreams and freedom as well? Far Other Worlds is a tale of unexpected love and unlooked for adventure, and the story of one woman's quest to be free.

Author: Arlene MacLeod

Publisher: Weymouth Press

Publication Date: 1-Sep-21

Number of Pages: 422 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 0997801034

ISBN-13: 9780997801033