A Life in the Hills

<p>Katharine Stewart, who died in 2013, was one of Scotland's best-loved writers on rural life in the Highlands. <em>A Croft in the Hills</em>, her first book, tells the story of how a couple and their young daughter, fresh from city life, took over a remote hill croft near Loch Ness and made a living from it. Full of warm personal insights, good humour and a love of living things, it has become a classic and has rarely been out of print since it was first published in 1960.<