Priorsford (Summarized Edition)

In Priorsford (1922), O. Douglas returns to the Scottish Borders town—thinly veiled Peebles—to trace quiet transformations of community and heart. Continuing Penny Plain's story, the novel follows Jean Jardine as friendship, duty, and Lord Bidborough's unexpected attentions reconfigure domestic certainties. Douglas's prose is limpid, gently ironical, studded with Scots turns of phrase, and attenti...