Description

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A
'lost' women's classic from World War I. A Scottish woman sends funny, moving, compassionate and rousing
letters to her younger brother, set to fight with the Canadian Expeditionary
Force in the trenches of WWI.Dunfermline, her hometown and the base for the Scottish regiment
The Black Watch, morphs into an active home front. Letter by letter we watch
the war unfolding. Her brother trains with his cavalry regiment on England's
Salisbury Plain and moves to frontline duty in France. Shocked by the war and
those who inflame it, the sister's letters are frank and also encouraging.
Others are vanishing. She needs her brother, her young Canadian, to survive. "Daisy
Thomson Gigg creates a voice as alive and open, fresh and engaged as when she
sat at the little round table, beneath the red-shaded lamp more than a century
ago, writing to her Boy, determined to keep his spirits up and remind him of
home. Her Scottish identity resonates in every sentence, her political
idealism, compassion and love shine out even on her darkest days. Hers
represents a new and unique voice and an important addition to the canon of
literature of the First World War." - Angela K. Smith, author of Women's
Writing of the First World War