Orphaned Annie Anderson is sent to live with grasping relatives in a small Scottish town, where the bold farm boy Alec Forbes becomes her protector. Their story moves through a tyrannical schoolmaster, a winter flood, the stern piety of the stonemason Thomas Crann, and Alec’s turbulent student years at the university in Aberdeen.
One of MacDonald’s best-loved Scottish novels, rich in Broad Scots speech and generous faith. Download the free EPUB.