Solved - kids book about scottish castle under siege

[aloisia]

I really, really, really want to find this book I read as a kid, I've been searching for frigging hours trying to find it!

And I don't remember a great deal about it... :/

Basically from what I remember it's about this girl who lives in a castle (maybe she's a princess, I have no idea!) that's under attack... now, this castle might be in Scotland, or the INVADING ARMY might be from Scotland.

SO it's about this guy that falls off a ladder or something and is wounded, she finds him and nurses him back to health, yada, yada, yada.

Seriously, I can't remember anything about it!

Anyone?

Otherwise I'ma have to go creep around the library and see if I can find the cover! :whistling:

 

[aloisia]

So... I found it.

I was right about the castle and the guy that falls off the ladder o_o

Weird how you forget and embellish things over time, isn't it?

Just in case someone comes across this archived and looking for something that sounds kind of similar to my inane blabble, it's Raider's Tide by Maggie Prince.

(Strong historical fiction and powerful romantic drama set in border country during Elizabethan times -- forbidden passions and family loyalties; heresy and witchcraft, but at the heart of it, the burgeoning love of a young girl. The year is 1578 and Queen Elizabeth 1 is on the throne. Sixteen year old Beatie, the daughter of a North Country farmer is defying her family over the matter of her proposed marriage to her cousin Hugh. She is too busy being the elder daughter and watching over her family -- overseeing the kitchen work; riding her horse, Saint Hilda, and most importantly keeping a watchful eye out for the first sign of marauding Scots from over the border. The family live in Barrowbeck Tower -- a stronghold which should keep out invaders. But the Scots do invade and Beatie has to push at the face of one of them who appears -- courtesy of a grappling iron -- at an upper window. It is a young face and one that Beatie will never forget. It is the first Scot she has injured, probably killed. Next day, Beatie finds a dirty, bleeding body in the old hermit's hut in the wood, and discovers that it belongs to the Scot she pushed from the window. Through guilt she determines to nurse this enemy back to health, despite the terrible danger to herself which could have her burned at the stake. A smouldering tension of love and intimacy develops between patient and carer, but that isn't the only possible relationship for Beatie. She is also growing very close to the young parson, John Becker. This is an exceptionally atmospheric novel, written in the first person through the voice of this feisty Elizabethan teenager. The reader is immediately taken on a journey to Elizabethan England -- the country, not the city -- and the smells and sounds are vividly brought to life. Maggie Prince draws a vivid picture too of the wild landscape of the Border Country and the eternal teenage struggle to break free of childhood and lead an independent life.)

 

[Occlith]

Thanks for returning with an update.