Love and Music Will Endure

This is an historical novel based on the life of Mary MacPherson, the Skye bard and political campaigner during the Land wars of the nineteenth century. Her rage and despair at being falsely imprisoned in Inverness led to a poetic outpouring of songs. She linked her distress to the problems being faced by Highlanders who were being evicted from their homes.

She travelled throughout Scotland, singing and speaking at Land League meetings at a time when women were not supposed to be active in politics. She was one of those indomitable Victorian women who wouldn't accept the limitations society imposed on them. She overcame the barriers of class and gender.

Her beautiful songs about the beauty of the landscape and the pain of exile are still sung today.

The title, Love and Music Will Endure comes from an old Gaelic proverb, 'When the world comes to an end, only love and music will endure.' I think this fits her story well.