"Scottish legend has it that a medieval concoction made from the pulp of the Sow Thistle was once used to treat liver ailments. Called "thistle soup," it was also believed to be extremely beneficial to lactating mothers and wet nurses. This long-lost recipe of the highlands has yet to be recovered . . . East Lothian is "The Garden of Scotland" and the setting of this delightfully idiosyncratic story of country life. Often hilarious, always heartfelt, and at times sad, here unfold the ups and downs of four generations of one farming family from the northerly Orkney Isles, who move to the little farm of Cuddy Neuk in the south of Scotland just before the outbreak of World War II. A young Peter, the peedie boy who sets his heart on filling his somewhat eccentric grandfather's straw-lined wellies, grows up to run the family farm and become a farmer father to his own sons, putting his ability...
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