Gallows' Orchard

By Claire Spencer

Book Overview

In a Scottish village ruled by custom, suspicion, and hard moral judgment, one fearless young woman becomes a force the community cannot absorb. Orphaned and unguarded, she moves through a world of watchful neighbors, private resentments, and dangerous expectations, where independence can be read as defiance and desire can carry a fatal cost.

First published in 1930, Gallows' Orchard is a dark literary tragedy with the pressure of a mystery and the atmosphere of rural gothic fiction. Marriage, childbirth, murder, and death gather around a life shaped by beauty, passion, and isolation, turning village life into a landscape of dread. Stark, haunting, and emotionally severe, this debut novel offers a portrait of a woman caught between her own will and the unforgiving world that names her fate.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1434417794
• ISBN13: 9781434417794
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Wildside Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"