Red Rowans and Wild Honey

The sequel to the perennially popular Yellow on the Broom, Red Rowans and Wild Honey follows Betsy's life to the end of the Second World War. She recounts in detail the heady years of her adolescence, her courtship and her mother's struggle to bring up four children in the only way a travelling woman knew: hawking wares, fruit picking, tatty howking—in fact any kind of work that would provide the next meal.

Betsy Whyte was a gifted natural storyteller and this moving memoir brings vividly to life her joys and sorrows - the bitter and sweet 'red rowans' and 'wild honey' - in a way no work of the imagination can. This edition also contains another substantial piece of autobiography, intended to form the third part of the story of her life, which remained incomplete at the time of her death. This is the first time it has appeared in print.