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Merkland or Self Sacrifice

Author
Margaret Oliphant
Language
English
Length
466 pages
ISBN
9781836103509
Published
20 March 2026
Imprint
Sovereign
  • family secrets
  • guilt and remorse
  • self-sacrifice
  • moral conflict
  • Scottish setting
  • social expectations
  • loyalty and duty
  • past trauma
  • emotional struggle
  • redemption

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Merkland; or, Self Sacrifice by Margaret Oliphant follows Anne Ross, burdened by her brother’s dark past and the shame it casts over her family. As Alison Aytoun, tied to that tragedy, enters their lives, hidden tensions rise. Torn between guilt, duty, and compassion, Anne faces difficult choices, revealing the emotional cost of loyalty and the power of sacrifice.

Author

Margaret Oliphant (1828–1897) was a Scottish novelist who wrote as if the rent depended on it — because it often did. Widowed young, she supported a large household with novels, biographies, reviews, and stories of the seen and unseen, becoming one of the Victorian age's most tireless professionals. Domestic realism, historical fiction, and ghostly tales all came from the same steady pen.

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