Ardnish Was Home

De: Angus MacDonald

Narrado por: Donald Sinclair

Gallipoli, 1916. Lovat Scout soldier Donald Peter Gillies lies in hospital, blinded by the Turks. There he falls in love with his Queen Alexandra Corps nurse, Louise. The story moves back and forth from their time at the field hospital to the west highlands of Scotland where Donald grew up. As they talk in the quiet hours he tells her the stories of the coast and glens. Louise in turn tells her own story of growing up in a Welsh coal mining valley. They get cut off from the Allied troops and are forced to make an escape, but there is still another tragic twist to their story waiting on the way back to Donald’s beloved highland home.

©2016 Angus MacDonald (P)2019 Soundings

The writing made me feel like I was right in the thick of the story.

I adored the accent of the reader of this story. The story was full of information about the war in Gallipoli. I felt like I was part of it. I could imagine that I was a friend living this story.

Loved the trilogy

I felt thoroughly engaged by the story and the storyteller. It was moving, and the complexity added to the depth of the story. I'd like to know what else Angus McDonald has written.