'But for all my reading and schooling, two Chris Guthries there were that fought for my heart and tormented me.'

'You knew you'd never be the same again, but the world went on, and you went with it. So you folded up your dreams an...

'But a worse thing came as slow September dragged to its end. A thing I would never tell a soul. Festering away in th...

'It wasn't like waking from a dream, marrying, but more like going into one. And I wasn't sure, not for days, what th...

'Our best friends were out of Kinraddie now. But we had ourselves. And seeing your Ewan grow straight and strong, wit...

'Everything I had ever loved and desired went out to the madness beyond the hills on that ill road that flung its evi...