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    Back to Buckhaven and Other Short Stories
    Back to Buckhaven and Other Short Stories
    Back to Buckhaven and Other Short Stories
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    Back to Buckhaven and Other Short Stories

    By Pat DeMono

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    "Back to Buckhaven" is a compilation of short stories, each of which takes place in the east neuk of Fife, Scotland, where the author was born and raised. In the northeast coastal villages of Leven, Largo, Pittenweem, Windygates, Crail...Ms. DeMono stops to tell a tale intrinsic to the town and its people.

    There's Mrs. Brown, a stern and regimented Pittenweem primary school teacher who learns a lesson about change and adaptability from a young substitute. In Kennoway, seascape artist and resident spinster Nell McPherson finds love when a fisherman from her canvas walks into her life. And on the braes of Buckhaven, while people-watcher and sweet shop proprietress Miss Murray plays Cupid for two unsuspecting customers, wise and feisty old Daisy Bell -- who'd never been out of the county of Fife -- is introduced to the world beyond her village by a young caretaker.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateMar 2, 2010
    ISBN9781449063252
    Back to Buckhaven and Other Short Stories
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    Pat DeMono

    Pat DeMono is a former magazine editor (Pyramid Publications) and a former Associate Fiction and Book Editor at Cosmopolitan magazine. She co-authored a coffee table book entitled, "Orange County: A Chronicle of Three Centuries" and has written numerous in-depth articles for various regional magazines and newspapers. She has worked as a freelance writer for more than twenty years. "Back to Buckhaven and Other Short Stories" is her first work of fiction.

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