Author:Walter Scott
When young Francis Osbaldistone discovers that his vicious and scheming cousin Rashleigh has designs both on his father's business and his beloved Diana Vernon, he turns in desperation to Rob Roy for help. Chieftain of the MacGregor clan, Rob Roy is a brave and fearless man, able and cunning. But he is also an outlaw with a price on his head, and as he and Francis join forces to pursue Rashleigh, he is constantly aware that he, too, is being pursued - and could be captured at any moment. Set on the eve of the 1715 Jacobite uprising, Rob Roy brilliantly evokes a Scotland on the verge of rebellion, blending historical fact and a novelist's imagination to create an incomparable portrait of intrigue, rivalry and romance.
'She writes like an angel and thinks like the devil. Joughin is a major discovery'
—— Fay Weldon'An exciting new talent'
—— Sunday Telegraph'Sheena Joughin has an unusual clarity of voice and a crafty duality, something both brooding and light, in her writing. The hurts and nastinesses between her characters are paralleled with a casual persistence of good nature and good humour in this funny, piercing book about lostness, childishness and growing up'
—— Ali Smith , The Times Literary Supplement'Very funny, very edgy, very acute. I love this book'
—— Julie Burchill'[Joughin] is already a mistress of mordant comedy... a talent to watch'
—— Daily Mail'Joughin has a merciless eye for unflattering detail and for the insecurities of both sexes ... extremely funny'
—— Daily Telegraph
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