A Lost Lady of Old Years

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Francis Birkenshaw is a raw Edinburgh youth in the Forty-Five, not a Covenanter saint. Hear Buchan’s A Lost Lady of Old Years unabridged in English: Jacobite money, Margaret Murray of Broughton, messages to Lord Lovat, the road that ends at Culloden. Listen to a self-seeker pulled into a cause by a married woman’s honour, then to Murray’s later treachery in the Tower. Spoken 1745 — loyalty, profit, a lady who will not stay a prize. Pace of flight and errand. The ear catches Scots talk and a rising already lost. A historical novel of becoming less cheap, heard as adventure with a bill. Peter Stark on the boat, Dod Craik’s robbery gone wrong, Lovat’s trust, Murray turning king’s evidence. Hear Francis grow a conscience he did not pack. Jacobite weather in the voice: profit first, then a lady’s standard, then the Tower.