Those Other Times

by Bess Ross

This novel tells the story of an incomer married into a close-knit fishing community in northern Scotland. Struggling to cope with poverty, Cis also has to cope with her complex relationship with Marjie, her bright and sensitive daughter. Partly autobiographical, this book is Bess Ross's first novel, and a work that helped to confirm her as a distinctive and talented voice in modern Scottish literature.

256 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2001

About the author

Bess Ross (b. 1945) is a Scottish writer. One of nine children, she was brought up on the coast of the Moray Firth. Forced by economic circumstances to leave school and earn money as a domestic worker, she returned to Ross-shire and got married.