Zusammenfassung
Zusammenfassung von Der Heide-Mond
Für wen es gedacht ist
Readers who love a romance with a spirited heroine, a road trip through Scottish history, castles and glens, and a sparkling mix of fairy-tale talk, travel and matters of the heart.
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The Heather-Moon is a romantic novel by C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson, the husband and wife team who wrote many motoring romances in the early twentieth century. It follows Barrie MacDonald, an eighteen-year-old raised in a stern house near Carlisle, who learns one August day that her mother is alive and acts on the stage. You get a girl's first taste of freedom, a motor tour through Scotland, and a tangle of hearts.
Barrie runs away to find her mother. At the Carlisle railway station she meets a man who calls himself Somerled, a famous painter and millionaire who was born on the same Scottish island as her father's family. He takes her under his wing, and the book becomes a journey over the border through castles, abbeys, battlefields and the homes of poets, all under the new August moon that Barrie calls the heather moon.
The story is told in several voices: a narrator, Barrie's own journal, the notes of a novelist named Basil Norman, and Barrie's letters. Each shows the same events from a different side. Let us start with the attic at Hillard House, where a door left unlocked changes everything.
In dieser Zusammenfassung
- 1A forbidden attic and a hidden motherFree
- 2A portrait and a shocking truth
- 3A stranger at the station
- 4Two authors and a rival
- 5Mrs. James and the road north
- 6Poets, abbeys and the heather moon
- 7Mrs. Bal and the sister plan
- 8Proposals, schemes and a flight to the Highlands
- 9What the story is really about
- 10How the story is told
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A forbidden attic and a hidden mother
The story opens at Hillard House, a grim home where the road meets the moors near Carlisle. Barrie, eighteen, lives there with her stern grandmother, Mrs. MacDonald, a governess named Miss Hepburn and a housekeeper, Mrs. Muir. Romance is forbidden in this house, so Barrie feeds her hunger for it by peeping through the keyhole of the locked attic door and calling the gold dust she sees fairy gold.
One morning Mrs. Muir forgets to lock the door. Barrie slips up the creaking stairs into a vast attic full of trunks, old furniture and banished books. The air smells of spices, dust and old leather, and she feels perfectly happy for the first time.
In a far corner, hidden behind a barricade of clutter, she finds a set of pale blue satin furniture. She guesses at once that it belonged to her mother, a woman nobody will talk about. Her whole life she has known only that her father died when she was small and that her grandmother hates the memory of the woman he married.
The attic is the first doorway in the book. It shows how the girl has been starved of beauty and truth, and why she will leap at the first chance to run toward both.
She does not yet know that this one open door will send her across a whole country.
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Questions about Der Heide-Mond
What is The Heather-Moon about?
It follows eighteen-year-old Barrie MacDonald, who runs from her strict grandmother to find her actress mother. A painter named Somerled helps her, and a motor tour through Scotland turns into a story of friendship, jealousy and love.
What does the heather moon mean in the book?
For Barrie, the heather moon is the August new moon when the heather blooms. She calls it the moon for falling in love, when lovely things should happen to those who deserve them, and before the honeymoon.
Who is Somerled in The Heather-Moon?
Somerled is the name taken by Ian MacDonald, a Scottish-born painter and millionaire. He left Dhrum as a boy and used the name of the clan's founder. He meets Barrie at Carlisle station and becomes her guardian.
Is The Heather-Moon easy to read?
Yes, its short chapters, lively dialogue and cheerful journal voice make it welcoming. The story moves from scene to scene, and the many Scottish places add color without slowing the plot.
Who wrote The Heather-Moon and when was it written?
It was written by C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson, a husband and wife who wrote many motoring romances. It belongs to the early twentieth century, the era when motorcars were a new way to see the countryside.