Red Rowans and Wild Honey

The sequel to the perennially popular Yellow on the Broom, Red Rowans and Wild Honey follows Betsy Whyte's life to the end of the Second World War. She recounts in detail the heady years of her adolescence, her courtship and her mother's struggle to bring up four children in the only way a travelling woman knew: hawking wares, fruit-picking, tattie-howking - in fact any kind of work that would provide the next meal. Betsy Whyte was a gifted natural storyteller and this moving memoir brings vividly to life her joys and sorrows - the bitter and sweet 'red rowans' and 'wild honey' - in a way no work of the imagination can.