Sandy Macpherson

Difficult to know what to make of it really - a bit like Relative Merits in my own family. Sandra Macpherson is the widow of a clan chieftain and she's collected stories and her own memories of being the lady of the estate at Glentruim. Her actual stories are fairly interesting and her love of the people around her touching, but she sounds as though she's feeling what she ought to feel and of course she's steeped in posh people shooting things as though it's necessary, so you have to grit your teeth while you read. Quite how she manages to believe the fella who told her that walking along with a live bullet in your gun chamber is 99.9% safe is a mystery. Has she been brainwashed by the silly armed men in her life?! As for ending passages with a smug sigh and an exclamation mark - that wears you down. But there are some good superstition stories in there - those are probably the best of the book. For me, an insight into how these folk think. Sadly, it's just as you'd expect they think!… (mais)