Chasing Angels (42 page)

THE LAST WANDERER

This rich and moving saga tells the story of Ina, Margo and Rose – grandmother, daughter and granddaughter – from the small fishing community of Acarsaid on
the west coast of Scotland. Each has led a very different existence, but all three find themselves, despite their restless spirits, caught up in the life of the sea. Told with great understanding
and infectious wit, The Last Wanderer is a fascinating story of the ups and downs, the laughs and tragedies of families bound together by an extraordinary shared history.

DAISY’S WARS

Growing up in a family whose only interest is her older sister, a precociously talented singer, Daisy learns early on how to cope with disappointment and rejection.
Strikingly attractive, Daisy is determined to break free and live life on her own terms. Then a despicable act of violence gives her no choice but to leave home. The WAAFs want recruits and Daisy,
full of anticipation and trepidation, signs up. Now she can be the person she’s always wanted to be – but who exactly is that? Through the dangers of the war, the raids, the heightened
camaraderie, the emotional tension, Daisy comes to realise that she need not put up a front as a good-time girl or an ice-queen. But by then, it’s too late for the one pilot who almost broke
through her reserve…

SECOND SIGHT

The moving story of a woman sending her pilot son away to fight in the Second World War – from one of Scotland’s bestselling, best-loved storytellers Nancy
MacLeod’s great-great-grandfather brought his family to Cape Breton, Nova Scotia from Raasay, a tiny Scottish island, in the 1840s, in hope of a better life. They prospered in this new world,
despite the harsh and unforgiving winters, but clung on to their old traditions and customs for comfort. Born at the beginning of a new century, Nancy has no patience with the old ways. She
declares herself a Canadian and ignores the signs that she has inherited the family’s Second Sight. But when her brothers leave home to serve in the First World War, she experiences strange
things that she neither understands nor wants to, so when she marries she moves far away from superstitious Cape Breton. Then the Second World War breaks and her eldest son, Calli, goes to England
to pursue his dream of being a bomber Command pilot. Calli’s plane is shot down and his body never found. Nancy is unable to accept his death. She can still sense a feeling of life attached
to him, a branch of the family tree that grows unstoppably while all hope seems lost. And Annie, a girl growing up in Glasgow, has always seen a man in the corner, a young pilot she doesn’t
know but somehow feels a strange connection with…