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Clap Hands for the Singing Molecatcher

Clap Hands for the Singing Molecatcher

Scenes from a Scottish Childhood

by Roderick Grant

Imprint: Origin

5.1 x 7.85 in

Paperback
9781912476688
October 2019
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$13.95

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Clap Hands for the Singing Molecatcher is both hilarious and deeply moving in its splendid account of the writer’s childhood on a remote country estate in Morayshire in the 1940s and 1950s; a place where isolated hill farms, limitless moorland and the rock-strewn banks of wild, tumbling rivers became the backdrop for a variety of adventures and experiences. Laughter, tragedy and dramatic incident thread their way through the life of a growing boy and the lives of the people he observes.

Roderick Grant’s book is not merely one of nostalgic recall. It is a richly evocative memoir of a time and place when horses still drew ploughs and children walked seven miles or more each day to reach their school; and where shepherd and gamekeeper, farmer and labourer, forester, railway worker, teacher, laird and minister, and their families, were all part of a community, close-knit in its isolation from the changing post-war world.

Roderick Grant was born in Forres, Morayshire, in 1941, where he attended the local academy. He has worked as a forestry worker, a journalist, a newspaper editor, a television presenter, a radio broadcaster, a bookshop manager and a postman. He has been published in both Britain and the USA.

a detailed, loving and always interesting recollection of an adventurous Scottish childhood, refreshingly honest about the dawn of sexual awareness' ~Angus MacVicar

Absolutely fascinating ... beautifully written' ~BBC

Beg, borrow or buy a copy today, I promise that you will be entranced' ~Nairnshire Telegraph

Evocative and lively' ~Scots Magazine

I was captivated . . . Grant’s evocative style, with humour never far away, recalls H.E. Bates and the best of his country writing' ~Sue Baker

Vividly paints the sights, smells, events and characters of rural Scotland in such a comedic way that it is hard not to laugh out loud' ~Press & Journal

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