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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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Description

Anne Ross learns her vanished brother Norman may still live, and may have shot Arthur Aytoun. With Mrs Catherine the laird, Alice Aytoun, Marjory Falconer, and Archie Sutherland’s debts pressing the estate, she sets out to clean a name that shame has already claimed. Scottish scandal as a case: self-sacrifice as Anne’s investigation to clear a brother’s name.

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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