The Loves of Miss Anne 12+

🔖 A picaresque style of story, the unreliable first person narrator Clemmy MacTaggart travels down paths both primrose and diversionary. Divisions and distinctions between the classes of rural Scotland are revealed as the reader is by turns amused and amazed as the narrative develops. Her loves are many, and the story of them makes the most delectable reading we have come upon for a long time The story is full of incident, and rich in sketches of Scottish character; it is written with a racy humour that will win it an easy welcome among all lovers of romance.Crockett’s picaresque tale, told as a first person narrative by Clemmy MacTaggart blends romance and stark realism in a rural setting. He also pokes fun at the world of writers and publishing all the while reminding us that ‘ordinary’ people are life’s real heroes.