A review by bluestarfish
The Quarry Wood by Nan Shepherd

5.0

Martha Ironside lives in a small farming community but manages to carve a different path as a university trained teacher, although one who is travelling 8 miles each way to school while looking after two invalids in the evenings and weekends at one point. I found it a fascinating story of a girl growing up to be a woman and how life is strange. I only found the glossary of dialect words at the back once I'd read the book, so I had to muddle through the words, but that wasn't too much of a barrier really. The close observation of life made this for me.