God’s Highlander - E V Thompson

“I wish you good luck, Minister, but I fear it’s more than wishes you’ll be needing here in Eskaig…”

With these words the boatman pushed away from the little jetty on Loch Eil, leaving the Reverend Wyatt Jamieson to face the hostile, hard-bitten villagers of his new parish.

A Highlander himself, coming home after soldiering in Africa and a ministry in the slums of Glasgow, Jamieson was soon to discover that his poverty-stricken flock had good reason to distrust those in authority.

But as he struggled to convince the villagers that he was not a landlord’s man but God’s man, the Minister of Eskaig found an unlikely ally in Mairi, a wild Highland girl with the beauty of a young deer …