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Poverty Castle

by Robin Jenkins

ISBN: 9781846970153
Imprint: Polygon
Publication Date: Jun 2007
Format: Paperback (eBook also available)
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Donald Sempill has a beautiful wife who adores him, five perfect daughters and enough money that he doesn’t have to work. In fact he can afford to buy a ruin in Argyllshire and restore it as a home for them all – Poverty Castle. The idyll can’t last, though. Try as hard they might obsession and the outside world begin to creep into the Sempills’ Eden and the stability and idealism they had worked so hard for is threatened. A subtly ironic tale from Scotland’s master storyteller.

John Robin Jenkins was born in 1912, one of four children, in the village of Flemington, near Cambuslang. He studied English at the University of Glasgow. When World War II broke out, he registered as a conscientious objector and was directed to work for the Forestry Commission; he used this experience in the acclaimed novel, The Cone Gatherers. In 1957, he moved abroad to work in Spain, Afghanistan and Malaysia. In 1968, he settled in Dunoon where he remained for the rest of his life. In 2002 he received the Saltire Society’s Award for Lifetime Achievement. He died in 2005.

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