Lady Magdalen

Paperback original. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 330. Pictorial wraps.

Author's last novel to be published during his lifetime. A tribute to the feminine ideal, set in early 17th century Scotland. His best-known novel, The Cone Gatherers (1955), based upon his forestry work as a conscientious objector, is a set text in Scottish high schools. "Like all the great masters, his skill is lightly worn, his sentences singing with what he does not say... he is the great old man of Scottish letters." –The Times