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O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker – book cover

O Caledonia: A Novel

By Elspeth Barker

This first novel explores the chain of events which, in the social circumstances and mores of Scotland of the forties and fifties, cause the bizarre death of a young girl. This novel won the RSL's Winifred Holtby Prize for the…

Release Date
1991
Length
151 pages
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Our Review

This first novel explores the chain of events which, in the social circumstances and mores of Scotland of the forties and fifties, cause the bizarre death of a young girl. This novel won the RSL's Winifred Holtby Prize for the best regional novel of the year.