Penny Plain (Summarized Edition)

Penny Plain reimagines the Scottish Borders town of Priorsford—thinly veiled Peebles—after the Great War, where a young woman's stewardship of a modest household becomes social ballast. Douglas's prose is lucid, gently ironical, with occasional Scots idiom; scenes of bazaars, railway outings, and fireside talk build a precise social record from small particulars. The novel sits between the Kailyar...