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Rona McPherson, a newly divorced woman in present-day Aberdeen, uncovers in her attic the dusty old diary of a young man, Hugh Ross. Through the beautifully crafted changes in Hugh's language and view of the world as his life expands into new experiences and new continents, the diary allows us an unusually intense and intimate insight into the world of an immigrant crofter in the late nineteenth century. Hugh's story begins on a croft in the far north of Scotland. Inspired by the arrival of a new, modern-thinking minister, Hugh and his two best friends make the fateful decision to cross to the other side of the world and begin a new life in America.