The Second Queen of Hirta

Rachel MacCrimmon is a young woman who lives on Hirta, the only inhabited island in the Hebridean archipelago of Saint Kilda, in the 19th century.
Although hardly anyone realises this, and Rachel would never believe it herself, she is extraordinarily talented. By a strange turn of events, she is given the opportunity to write her memoir - something no other Hirtan would be capable of - and does so in English, a language she would not understand if she heard it spoken.
She tells of her early l...