· / Bag Full of Books. ‘Apricot Sky’ by Ruby Ferguson. ‘Apricot Sky’ by Ruby Ferguson describes the family life of a multi-generational Scottish family, who live on the west coast of Scotland, just over the water from Skye. The story encompasses a beautiful summer, a summer that will culminate in the marriage of the second daughter of the family, a girl called Raine, who will be . Apricot Sky. It's in the Scottish Highlands, with postwar austerity and rationing in full effect, but Mr and Mrs MacAlvey and their family and friends are too irrepressibly cheerful to let it get them down. There's Raine, newly engaged to the brother of a local farmer, and Cleo, just back from three years in the States, along with their brother James, married to neurotic Trina, wh/5. First published in and inexplicably out of print for decades, Apricot Sky shows the author of the classic Lady Rose and Mrs Memmary in a decidedly more frolicking mood. This new edition features an introduction by Candia McWilliam/5(37).
Find many great new used options and get the best deals for Apricot Sky by Ruby Ferguson Paperback Book at the best online prices at eBay! Apricot Sky is a slice of life story about the upper class MacAlvey family living on the coast of Scotland. Set just after WWII, Mr. and Mrs. MacAlvey have three surviving adult children and are also caring for three of their orphaned grandchildren. Apricot Sky|Ruby Ferguson, Social Security, Pensions And Retirement Behavior Within The Family (NBER Working Paper Series)|Alan L Gustman, Augustus Thomas (Twayne's United States Authors Series)|Ronald J. Davis, Surveys Of Applied Economics: The Royal Economic Society, The Social Science Research Council|Phyllis Deane.
A review of Apricot Sky by Ruby Ferguson. I had never read anything by Ruby Ferguson, a writer associated in my mind as a writer of books for children and young adults, such as her series of pony stories featuring Jill. In truth, I would not have picked up Apricot Sky if Dean Street Press had not offered me a copy of it to review ahead of their reissue of the novel, first published in , under the Furrowed Middlebrow imprint. Read "Apricot Sky" by Ruby Ferguson available from Rakuten Kobo. "I'm haunted by an awful dread," said Raine. "It was a wedding Mysie once went to. The bridegroom never turned up and th. Apricot Sky derives energy and conviction from the fiction of genre, without resort to plot by rote, laziness or cynicism. It is remarkable that a book so rich in types should yet engage and surprise; I would ascribe this to Ruby Ferguson ’s capacity to keep the supernatural and the unsaid in play even when she is at her most material or talkative.
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