Thistle Soup

East Lothian is 'The Garden of Scotland' and the setting for this delightfully idiosyncratic story of country life. Often hilarious, always heartfelt and at times sad, here unfold the ups and downs of four generations of one farming family from the northern Orkney Isles, who move to the little farm of Cuddy Neuk in the south of Scotland just before the outbreak of the World War II. A young Peter, the peedie boy who sets his heart on filling his somewhat eccentric grandfather's straw-lined wellies, grows up to run the family farm and become a farmer father to his own sons, putting his ability to see the funny side of things to good use, as adversities crop up with an intriguing regularity...