My Heart's in the Lowlands : Ten Days in Bonny Scotland

Best-selling novelist Liz Curtis Higgs invites you to take an entertaining journey through the verdant hills and glens of the Scottish Lowlands - Dumfries and Galloway in particular. Without crossing the pond, changing time zones, or driving on the left side of the road, you'll explore quaint villages and crumbling castles, old bookshops and charming tearooms in the delightful company of a guide whose love for this quiet nook of Scotland illuminates every page. “Let’s go, shall we? Just the two of us?” “I consider Galloway the country’s best kept secret: a place where time holds its breath, where ancient ruins dot the countryside in moss-covered splendor, where the natives are friendly and tourists are few, only because they don’t know what they’re missing. “So, ten days in bonny Scotland. You’ll join me, aye?” –from My Heart’s in the Lowlands Best-selling novelist Liz Curtis Higgs invites you to take an entertaining journey through the South West of Scotland, known as Dumfries and Galloway. Without crossing the pond, changing time zones, or driving on the left side of the road, you’ll explore quaint villages and crumbling castles, old bookshops and charming tearooms in the delightful company of a guide whose love for this quiet nook of Scotland illuminates every page. The verdant hills and glens of the Lowlands are awash in history, rich with culture, and peopled with engaging characters. The setting for Higgs’s acclaimed series of historical novels, Dumfries and Galloway also serves as her home away from home. Her decade-long love affair with this unique area of the world, combined with her award-winning storytelling skills, makes her the ideal armchair travel companion. Warm, personal, and deeply evocative, My Heart’s in the Lowlands transports you to an unforgettable corner of Scotland that will lay claim to your heart forever. Liz Curtis Higgs is the best-selling author of 25 books, including her Scottish historical novels Thorn in My Heart, Fair Is the Rose, Whence Came a Prince, and Grace in Thine Eyes . She is currently writing her fifth historical novel, Here Burns My Candle. An Invitation 1 -- First Light 7 -- Heading South 14 -- Second Breakfast 22 -- To Kirk We Go 29 -- Country and Town 39 -- Burns Slept Here ... and Here 47 -- Homeward Bound 56 -- A Sense of Place 60 -- In a Fog 68 -- Holy Ground 73 -- Gilded Arches 80 -- History Lesson 91 -- Burgh of Barony 99 -- Sunlight and Shadow 105 -- Under the Weather 111 -- Storming the Bookshop 117 -- A Misty Afternoon 124 -- Of Smugglers and Monks 130 -- New in Town 137 -- On the High Street 143 -- Making History 152 -- Over the Hill 159 -- Fair Anwoth 165 -- Castle and Cairn 175 -- Ferry Thorn 182 -- Into the Glen 187 -- She Walks These Hills 193 -- Auld Kirk, New Kirk 201 -- Wild and Woolly 209 -- An Afternoon of Villages 216 -- Banks o' the Nith 226 -- Looking North 236 -- Haste Ye Back 245 -- A Wee Word 247.