A COUNTRY DWELLERS YEARS

Writing Her Life. It was published in 2000, and was awarded a prize from the National Library of Scotland, as Research Book of the Year. Kesson and her husband were farm workers in North East Scotland from 1939 to 1951, and this volume contains work from this period, illustrating her abiding love of nature and immersion in the changing seasons. I carry climates within me , she said, and woods are my territory . Her writing career was established in 1946 when she was commissioned to contribute twelve monthly articles on A Country Dweller s Year for The Scots Magazine