Beggarman's Country — Jan Webster

The final instalment of the Kate Kilgour trilogy. Patie Fleming, the racing driver who carries on the Kilgour family's engineering interests, marries a wealthy wife. By contrast, his sister marries the local pit agent - although another, very different suitor had been vying for her attention. It is her daughter Eleanor, born in 1922 soon after the story opens, who epitomizes the political concern that has activated three generations of Flemings, Balfours and Kilgours, however. Eleanor stands as Scottish Nationalist candidate for Dounhead, encountering the differing attitudes to this most burning of Scottish issues. Beggarman's Country is a heart-warming and enriching tale that documents love and family in times of peace and war. Colliers Row and Saturday City, the first two volumes in Jan Webster's trilogy, established her as a magnificent story-teller, able to enthral Scots and non-Scots alike. Beggarman's Country concludes the chronicle of Kate Kilgour's descendants down to the present day.

Praise for Jan Webster

'Remarkable… the characters come over as real people.' â€" Jessica Stirling ‘A rich book, full of character and action.' â€" Daily Mirror 'Stunning... a first novel of genius.' â€" Daily Express Jan Webster was born in 1924 in Blantyre, in the heart of the Lanarkshire coalfields. Her father died when she was fifteen. She was educated at St John's Grammar School, Hamilton, and Hamilton Academy. On leaving school she worked as a journalist in Glasgow and London. Jan Webster sold her first short story at the age of seventeen, and has had many published and broadcast since then.