Firstly I am so sorry that I haven't posted here for absolutely ages! I got to the end of my tether at the end of 2024 and stopped writing entirely. Life was just busy with Christmas stuff and family stuff - not all good - and I had written over 200,000 words in 2024 and frankly I thought that was enough. I decided to just not write any more and to keep all my blog posts to start afresh in 2025. So here I am with a bunch of reviews - which I'll space out, of course - and a big welcome to 2025. I really hope it's better than 2024 was. I did read a lot of books, though, which I'm glad about. I'll be back up to speed soon.
This book was the December choice for my book club, and it wasn't anything that I would have picked up by myself but I ended up really liking it. It's a short book and it's about the Cairngorm mountains in Scotland. Mary chose the book because she grew up near them in Aberdeen and knows the mountains quite well. She's read this before but wanted us all to read it too.
It's a short book and the different chapters focus on different facets of the mountains, from the nature, to the water, to the birds, to the people who live there. Nan records her own history with the mountains as well as describing herself walking over them. She doesn't romanticise them, though - she tells stories of those who died on the mountains and how the natural world can make them difficult to navigate.
I found it a really lovely book and am glad I read it. I'm giving it four out of five.
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