Results for "River Clyde" in World Literature

State prosecutor Chastity Riley runs off to Glasgow. For one, there is that letter, written by a lawyer, that lures her to the birthplace of her great-great-grandfather. And secondly, her life in Hamburg has arrived at a sad impasse. In the rough Scottish city, she meets Tom, who knows the key that unlocks the Rileys’ family secret. She never dared confront the painful truths about herself, but some whisky and a few ghosts help her to do just that.

Sidney J. Poritz was born in Cape Town, South Africa, and immigrated to the United States in 1948 with his widowed mother and four young siblings. He built a career as an art professor and land developer in Western Massachusetts, and in 1987, he discovered Prince Edward Island. Subsequently, he bought a 200-year-old farmhouse at Clyde River. Each summer he packed his family into his vehicle and undertook the 15-hour journey, then the slow boat crossing to the island he had come to love.