The braid

Description:

Two Scottish sisters, living on the western island of Barra in the 1850s, relate, in alternate voices and linked narrative poems, their experiences after their family is forcible evicted and separated with one sister accompanying their parents and younger siblings to Cape Breton, Canada, and the other staying behind with other family on the small island of Mingulay.

subjects: Families,  Family,  Juvenile fiction,  Fiction,  Sisters,  Emigration and immigration,  Islands,  History,  Children's fiction,  Sisters, fiction,  Family, fiction,  Emigration and immigration, fiction,  Scotland, history, fiction,  Nova scotia, fiction,  Canada, fiction

Places: Mingulay (Scotland),  Canada,  Scotland,  Cape Breton Island (N.S.)

Times: 19th century,  1841-1867