Margaret Leigh was the author of Driftwood and Tangle, Spade Among the Rushes, Highland Homespun, Harvest of the Moor and My
Kingdom for a Horse. She was born in London in 1894, the cousin of novelist Dorothy L. Sayers and the daughter of an Oxford don. Her
childhood was spent wandering Europe and beyond for her father’s health, and following his death she became a governess, teacher and
university lecturer. In what would become a life-long habit, Margaret changed tack dramatically and turned to agriculture to support herself and
her mother, studying the subject and working farms and crofts, most notably in the north west of Scotland. She died in 1973.
In May 1933 Margaret Leigh took over the tenancy of Achnabo farm, in a beautiful corner of the West Highlands overlooking the isle of Skye. In this unsentimental yet exquisitely written book, she recounts a year of farming life there, from the burning of the land and ploughing in...
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