The McBrides / A Romance of Arran

The narrator recalls life in a small island community where a mysterious gypsy's arrival sets off a sequence of events involving rescued infants, local feuds, and sea voyages. Episodes move between peat roads, inns, and skiffs to a holy island, including a violent laird's death and scenes of fire and bereavement. Romantic entanglements among members of the McBride family and their neighbors unfold with weddings, secret loves, jealousies, and reconciliations, while Gaelic names, local labors, and moorland landscapes shape a vivid portrait of rural customs and communal tensions.