Bøker av Jessie Kesson

Tells the story of a sensitive child in an Elgin slum, and her later banishment to an Aberdeenshire orphanage.

This miscellany of Jessie Kesson's writings brings together a variety of her work in different genres, all focusing on childhood and adolescence.

Collection of short stories which draw heavily upon Jessie Kesson's own experiences of growing up in a small town in Scotland. The title story, Where the Apple Ripens, is the story of Isabel Emslie, a young girl facing up to her last day at school and an uncertain future in service in the town.