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This children's book helped keep Highland Clearances from fading out of view

Kathleen Fidler began her career as a teacher, and went on to write prolifically from the mid 1940s to the 70s, penning the The Desperate Journey and The Boy with the Bronze Axe that are still in publication today. Her most distinguished book, The Desperate Journey, was part of every primary school in Scotland’s senior curriculum from 1970s through to the 1990s.

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