FLORA FRASER

A SPECTATOR AND SCOTSMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR So well researched pacily written and sympathetic to the Auld Cause that it almost makes one a Jacobite Andrew Roberts Spectator Enthralling Throws us straight into the fresh air heather rain and midges of the Hebrides followed by the swamps and creeks of North America Full of unforgettable glimpses The TimesThe year is 1746 The Jacobite rebellion has failed catastrophically and Scotland is reeling in the devastating aftermath of the battle of Culloden Far to the west on an island in the Outer Hebrides twenty four year old Flora Macdonald is woken in the dead of night by a messenger with urgent intelligence Bonnie Prince Charlie is outside begging for her help With Flora s assistance the Stuart prince is disguised as an Irish maid and smuggled to the Isle of Skye evading government troops Flora s bravery and determination will see her immortalised in ballads and proclaimed a Scottish heroine But her efforts also result in her capture and detention in London Released the following year and returning to Skye Flora goes on to marry and emigrate to North Carolina only then to be caught up in the American Revolutionary War In Pretty Young Rebel award winning biographer Flora Fraser tells t