Reay Tannahill’s great bestseller is the story of one extraordinary woman’s determination to win back her birthright — the remote and beautiful West Highlandcastle ofKinveil — sold by her father to aGlasgow merchant when she was seven years old. It is also the intricate picture of a family in the heyday of the British Empire, an epic story spanning almost a hundred years and stretching fromEdinburgh to the Crimea, from an expandingAmerica to theIndia of the Raj.