Dancing in a Distant Place

Womens Fiction

Author: Isla Dewar

When Iris Chisholm arrives in the tiny Highland community of Green Cairns, she’s still in a state of shock – not so much from her husband’s untimely death as from the discovery that he’d gambled away all their money and even their home. In addressing the problems of the children at the school where she becomes the only teacher, Iris finds distraction from her worries. Furt….Read More

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