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Beautiful evocation of the last few moments of an elderly Highland woman's life.

A beautiful evocation of the last few moments of an elderly Highland woman's life. Published in 1924. Read by Ann Louise Ross.

By Neil M. Gunn, first published in 1924.


Read by Ann Louise Ross.


An elderly Highland woman is comforted in her final hours by the companionable nearness of her beloved granddaughter and the young woman's lover.


Second in a series of three short stories by one of Scotland's finest writers, Neil M. Gunn (best known for his 1941 novel, The Silver Darlings). Gunn was born in 1891, in the coastal village of Dunbeath, in Caithness, and wrote prolifically over a period that spanned the recession of the 1920s through to the aftermath of the Second World War. He died in 1973.


The stories in this series are taken from Half-Light, a new collection of Gunn's short fiction compiled by his nephew Dairmid Gunn and published by Caithness-based Whittles Publishing.


Abridged and produced by Kirsteen Cameron.

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