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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

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    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Apricot Sky

Apricot Sky

Ferguson, Ruby

Paperback

Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $16.99

ISBN10: 1914150414
ISBN13: 9781914150418
Publisher: Dean Street Press
Published: Jun 7 2021
Pages: 250
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.57 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English

I'm haunted by an awful dread, said Raine. It was a wedding Mysie once went to. The bridegroom never turned up and the bride swooned at the altar.

Have you practised swooning?

It's 1948 in the Scottish Highlands, with postwar austerity and rationing in full effect, but Mr and Mrs MacAlvey and their family and friends are too irrepressibly cheerful to let it get them down. There's Raine, newly engaged to the brother of a local farmer, and Cleo, just back from three years in the States, along with their brother James, married to neurotic Trina, who smothers their two oversheltered children. There are also three MacAlvey grandchildren, orphaned in the war, whose hilarious mishaps keep everyone on their toes. There are wedding preparations, visits from friends, an adventurous hike, and frustrated romance. But really the plot of the novel is, simply, life, as lived by irresistible characters with humour, optimism, and affection.

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