You may do whatever you like with this book, but mostly we hope you will read it. This book is in the public domain in Canada, and is made available to you DRM-free. mobi file on your mobile device, please use. Other supernatural tales include "Clairvoyance", (1932) about a psychic girl, "Juggernaut" (1935) about a haunted chair, and "The Pestering", (1932) focusing on a couple tormented by supernatural entity. The title story of "Couching at the Door" involves an artist haunted by a mysterious entity. She wrote several other historical novels, successful and much reprinted in their day, although this Jacobite Trilogy, featuring the dashing hero Ewen Cameron, remain the best known.īroster also wrote several short horror stories, collected in "A Fire of Driftwood" and Couching at the Door. Broster followed it up with two successful sequels, The Gleam in the North and The Dark Mile. Broster stated she had consulted eighty reference books before beginning the novel. She produced her best-seller about Scottish history, The Flight of the Heron, in 1925. Edward Stirling for the London stage in 1922. The Yellow Poppy (1920) about the adventures of an aristocratic couple during the French Revolution, was later adapted by Broster and W. Broster's first two novels were co-written with Gertrude Winifred Taylor Chantemerle: A Romance of the Vendean War and The Vision Splendid (about the Tractarian Movement).įollowing the war she returned to Oxford where she worked as a secretary to the Regius Professor of History and senior civil servants. Educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College and St Hilda's College, Oxford (where she was one of the first students), she served as a Red Cross nurse during World War I with a voluntary Franco-American hospital.
Broster, was a British novelist and short-story writer, born in Garston, Liverpool at Devon Lodge (now known as Monksferry House), which lies in Grassendale Park on the banks of the River Mersey. ĭorothy Kathleen Broster (2 September 1877 – 7 February 1950), usually known as D.K. When a second-sighted Highlander tells Ewen that the flight of a heron will lead to five meetings with an Englishman who is fated both to do him a great service and to cause him great grief, Ewen refuses to believe it.īut as Bonnie Prince Charlie’s ill-fated campaign winds to its bitter end, the prophecy is proven true-and through many dangers and trials, Ewen and Keith find that they have one thing indisputably in common: both of them are willing to sacrifice everything for honour’s.
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Set during the 1745 Jacobite uprising under Bonnie Prince Charlie, The Flight of the Heron is the first of the Jacobite Trilogy.Īt the centre of the story are the intersecting fortunes of two men, who at first glance seem almost complete opposites: Ewen Cameron, a young Highland laird in the service of the Prince, is dashing, sincere, and idealistic, while Major Keith Windham, a professional soldier in the opposing English army, is cynical, world-weary, and profoundly lonely. Fiction, historical, Scotland, film/TV adaptation
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