This is literally the best audiobook I've ever listened to, and I listen to all I can get my hands on. Lands of High and Low would make a fantastic movie! I loved everything about it!
The most talented narrator for the language in this story. Does anyone know if she is Scotch or of Scottish descent. The story itself is marvelous and she makes it come alive. Many thanks Martha Keyes and CarolLynne Henry for beautifully combining your talents in the crafting of this lovely and unusual work. God bless you and those you love as well as the gifts of good and gentle stories. ❤️ Thank you.
It took me a while to get used to the flow of this story, however, once I did, I couldnt stop listening. I was moved by the story and back story to the characters. Fear of the unknown. The intransigence of the church leaders and the injustices heaped on the villagers. I went through a variety of emotions, and honestly am still quite angry,☺. Beautifully written, with sensitivity and understanding of beliefs and prejudices of the time. A book that was hard to listen to , but, even harder not to.
My Grandmother's family ran from Northern Ireland, as Protestants and moved to Scotland. I grew up with these beautiful accents and terms. It also greatly assists me to understand why my family were so uninterested in any religion. Thank you for bringing all this bigertry, misinformation and attempts at social control to light. It's education as well as enjoyable listening. Thank you
This is such a powerful story pertaining to the tragedies our ancestors had to endure just to endure . . . . Thank you for this walk through an awful time in history which is hard to imagine.
Omg, this book has kept me on the edge of my seat for 2 whole days as I, almost nonstop, listened to this brilliant story, performed so beautifully! The way Carolynne Henry conveys emotion in her voice really makes it come to life! And one couldn't possibly listen to a book set in Scotland without a lovely Scottish voice narrating. 😊 I'm so sad it's finished now, and I can't wait to listen to more of Martha Keyes' stories. I want to go right back to the beginning and listen to it again!
I have loved every audio book from Martha Keyes but this one was especially poignant for this Scottish lass, the child of a Catholic mother and Protestant father. Even in the 1950's and 60's it was still taboo to marry outside of your church. The beautiful, expert narration just made it the most wonderfully authentic love story. Just breathtaking. Thank you.
Interesting observation. It put me in mind of my discovery, and I’m in my 70s, that my maternal grandparents were a mixed marriage (my GM was a Catholic and both her GFs were Chelsea out pensioners); and my GF was a boilermaker when the shipyards were sectarian. That marriage would have been in the early 1900s. I believe it was a well kept secret, I even remember one of their daughters in law remarking that her sons needn’t bring home a Catholic or a black!
I myself was born in a marriage between my father who was raised RC and my mother raised Protestant. They were married here in South Africa in the middle 70's and my older sister born to that union in '77. It caused much discord in my father's family and his church for taking my mother (who was his second wife after he divorced his first wife). When my parents got divorced when I was still quite young, my mother was apparently informed that all her children born in that marriage and "baptised" in the RC church, were henceforth deemed illegitimate children. It is so tragic that on both sides throughout history, pharasaical legalism has done so much harm to people under the guise of God's word or more like the twisting of scripture to suit those in leadership. As lovely and also at the same time terribly sad this story has been, which I credit both the author and narrator to give life to such thought provoking topic and time, I must admit that I have found myself angered more than once at the burdens laid upon the people at that time as well as their own ignorance of the scriptures to waylay such tyrannical exertions. It is only when we know and study the word of God and know the very God who gave us His word (2Tim. 3:16) that we can refute false claims and teachings and reply as the Lord Jesus himself teaches us in the accounts of the Gospel writers with the words..."it is written" Thank you again Martha Keyes for a great book and one that I have greatly enjoyed listening to throughout Sunday after church till this very hour, past 3am here in South Africa
Wow. Definitely one of the best I’ve ever listened too… a masterfully woven tapestry of culture and faith. I have rarely had the pleasure of indulging in a book I identified with more.
I noted in the story how the phrase "d'ya ken?" was used. Being a New Yorker living in the Scottish Borders, I notice how people still use that phrase now! Listening to the story read with the scottish accent for hours, i started thinking in that accent! Great story!
I have listened to a lot of these books, loving everyone of them. This one was so emotional. I cried through the whole thing thank you for the time and energy you put in writing it as well as the narration.
This is a fortuitous find! I was wondering what someone with a Scottish and Irish parent might feel like-this answered my question-and its a wonderful story. Ta!🏴
Thank you for releasing this Martha. It's timely considering what we're learning about the mishandling of the global pandemic response. My wish is on behalf of today's vaccine injured and how I wish everyone could understand the story you tell here; that people a long time ago also gave their lives during the development of a smallpox vaccine and that maybe today's injured might receive the recognition they deserve for their sacrifice.
In my research, it was amazing to read about the arguments from both sides of the aisle and how little they have changed in over two hundred years. I hope we can all be more understanding of one another--that's when true progress happens!
The book was so well written, drawing you into the story. Even though most of us have a very bad taste in our mouth after the vaccine circus that we have just been through, I still managed to enjoy the book. I'm glad that you brought out how the vaccine itself spread the disease in that particular case, just as we have witnessed in modern days. The writing was superb and the narration was beautifully done. I will definitely want to read your other books!
FYI Variolation is not vaccination. It was a precursor to vaccination, first developed by the Chinese. Vaccination is a much safer way of saving lives.
@@cathrionakilgarriff9620 thank you! Many of us have been horrified by the mass experiment that just occured without consent, So I listened to the story through that filter and still enjoyed it! Very well written!
Vaccines have saved thousands +thousands more lives. As a senior citizen, the COVID vaccines certainly saved mine, seeing as I myself contracted a severe case of the virus. Perhaps some of the people leaving comments here would do well to research the Polio pandemic, especially during the 1940s’, 50s’ & 60s’, and how many thousands plus thousands more, lives of schoolchildren were saved thanks to the Salk vaccine. We were exceedingly grateful for the discovery of that vaccine because it meant that we could attend school. And almost everyone personally knew of a family who had at least one case of polio, ending in an early death, wherein the parents of the children refused to have the children vaccinated.
You’re right about some things never changing. Even though my family member continues effects of long term COVID, is vaccine damaged for life, her eyes are closed to the fact that the virus plus vaccines have contributed significantly to her debilitating health. Her health was compromised by thyroid disease and autoimmune problems prior to COVID, and with all the peer reviewed information available she will still take the next vaccination or booster as soon as it becomes available. So I have to agree with you the spirit of the old Calvinism is alive and well, in reverse. This wonderful book makes this a very statement if people are allowed to make their own choices. People had to fight for their own choices then and we have to stand for right choices now or lose.
The only thing I wondered while I listened to this story was about the servants who willingly cared for everyone who was sick. Had they all been inoculated? They just suddenly appeared in the story without any reference to their own suffering.
It was explained. Several were from outside the village and had been virulated. The ones that hadn’t were given the choice to either undergo virulation or leave. Just one of them chose not to, a maid. She went in stead back to her mother who I believe lived elsewere.
Both Helen and her husband had the illness as children though very mildly, not like Ayla. Graham's uncle took all his servants to another outside town where they were virulated.
My mother told me of a beautiful 16 year old cousin who died from what she called the black smallpox. She worked in a hotel and must have caught it from someone who came through Childress, Texas and stayed in the hotel. Her father and my grandfather were the only ones to care for her because they had had smallpox years before. Her body was taken to a charnel house across from the cemetery. She was wrapped in a sheet and buried at midnight. So sad.
I've heard it said Calvinism killed the gospel in Scotland. Sadly the Calvinist reform theology which is resurging today came from the formally gnostic monk Augustine. The notion of limited Atonement had no place in the early church and is not scriptural. The fatalism the church leaders insist on in the story is part of Calvinism.
Ye can ayr ken the hous o a “Wee Free” Elder frae the pile o chuckies alang side his door. So he is aye ready to cerry oot God’s Word: “Let him wi’oot sin amang ye cast the first stane!!”
St Augustine was the Bishop of Hippo, dying as the Vandals overran the city. His great works are still in print today. Rest assured nobody will ever read your historical, philosophical or your theological works.
@mikimeadows you're all over the place. Calvinism is absolute heresy. St Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, dying as the Vandals overran the city doesn't fit in the category you've placed him, and what's your objection to the Irish. St Patrick, the first missionary to Ireland, was as rock solid Catholic as St Augustine.
Thank you so much! I did my postgraduate education in Public Health, so when I found information about variolation differences between the highlands and lowlands during historical research, I knew I wanted to write the story
This is literally the best audiobook I've ever listened to, and I listen to all I can get my hands on. Lands of High and Low would make a fantastic movie! I loved everything about it!
Ooh going to listen to it now 😍
I agree!
The most talented narrator for the language in this story. Does anyone know if she is Scotch or of Scottish descent. The story itself is marvelous and she makes it come alive. Many thanks Martha Keyes and CarolLynne Henry for beautifully combining your talents in the crafting of this lovely and unusual work. God bless you and those you love as well as the gifts of good and gentle stories. ❤️ Thank you.
Beautiful story. Thank you
It took me a while to get used to the flow of this story, however, once I did, I couldnt stop listening. I was moved by the story and back story to the characters. Fear of the unknown. The intransigence of the church leaders and the injustices heaped on the villagers. I went through a variety of emotions, and honestly am still quite angry,☺. Beautifully written, with sensitivity and understanding of beliefs and prejudices of the time. A book that was hard to listen to , but, even harder not to.
exactly! 😄
i actually ran extra miles just to keep listening 🙈😂
My Grandmother's family ran from Northern Ireland, as Protestants and moved to Scotland. I grew up with these beautiful accents and terms. It also greatly assists me to understand why my family were so uninterested in any religion. Thank you for bringing all this bigertry, misinformation and attempts at social control to light. It's education as well as enjoyable listening. Thank you
Thank you, the wonder and heartbreak , thank you for not saying the Lord's name in vain. South Africa
Love this story, thank you for writing without swearing and bringing God into your book❤😊
This is such a powerful story pertaining to the tragedies our ancestors had to endure just to endure . . . .
Thank you for this walk through an awful time in history which is hard to imagine.
Omg, this book has kept me on the edge of my seat for 2 whole days as I, almost nonstop, listened to this brilliant story, performed so beautifully! The way Carolynne Henry conveys emotion in her voice really makes it come to life! And one couldn't possibly listen to a book set in Scotland without a lovely Scottish voice narrating. 😊
I'm so sad it's finished now, and I can't wait to listen to more of Martha Keyes' stories. I want to go right back to the beginning and listen to it again!
I have loved every audio book from Martha Keyes but this one was especially poignant for this Scottish lass, the child of a Catholic mother and Protestant father. Even in the 1950's and 60's it was still taboo to marry outside of your church. The beautiful, expert narration just made it the most wonderfully authentic love story. Just breathtaking. Thank you.
Thank you so much! I'm so glad to know it resonated with you
Interesting observation. It put me in mind of my discovery, and I’m in my 70s, that my maternal grandparents were a mixed marriage (my GM was a Catholic and both her GFs were Chelsea out pensioners); and my GF was a boilermaker when the shipyards were sectarian. That marriage would have been in the early 1900s. I believe it was a well kept secret, I even remember one of their daughters in law remarking that her sons needn’t bring home a Catholic or a black!
I myself was born in a marriage between my father who was raised RC and my mother raised Protestant. They were married here in South Africa in the middle 70's and my older sister born to that union in '77. It caused much discord in my father's family and his church for taking my mother (who was his second wife after he divorced his first wife). When my parents got divorced when I was still quite young, my mother was apparently informed that all her children born in that marriage and "baptised" in the RC church, were henceforth deemed illegitimate children. It is so tragic that on both sides throughout history, pharasaical legalism has done so much harm to people under the guise of God's word or more like the twisting of scripture to suit those in leadership. As lovely and also at the same time terribly sad this story has been, which I credit both the author and narrator to give life to such thought provoking topic and time, I must admit that I have found myself angered more than once at the burdens laid upon the people at that time as well as their own ignorance of the scriptures to waylay such tyrannical exertions.
It is only when we know and study the word of God and know the very God who gave us His word (2Tim. 3:16) that we can refute false claims and teachings and reply as the Lord Jesus himself teaches us in the accounts of the Gospel writers with the words..."it is written"
Thank you again Martha Keyes for a great book and one that I have greatly enjoyed listening to throughout Sunday after church till this very hour, past 3am here in South Africa
I've been binging and enjoying your audio books for a week or so.
Love love love this book above all your other stories so far.
Thank you!
Wow. Definitely one of the best I’ve ever listened too… a masterfully woven tapestry of culture and faith. I have rarely had the pleasure of indulging in a book I identified with more.
Martha Keyes - I can't thank you enough for this wonderful...gift. It's a treasure.
Awsome novel and narration. Just finished listening and want to listen to this audobook again. Thank you for sharing.
an exquisite book! probably the best iv listened to for years! the story line, the narrator-just perfection 🤌🏻🤌🏻
Absolutely loved it from start to finish! Reader’s accent took my ear a bit getting used to, but added so much to the story.
What a group story and story teller. You had me right there with the people in this story. Loved this
Wonderful! Truly wonderful. I grew up without a father or mother and this story sung to the painful places in my heart. Thank you. God bless you.
Thank you so much for listening
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❤️ Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful book with us here on YT. ❤️ It really touched my heart. ❤️
I noted in the story how the phrase "d'ya ken?" was used. Being a New Yorker living in the Scottish Borders, I notice how people still use that phrase now! Listening to the story read with the scottish accent for hours, i started thinking in that accent! Great story!
Oh my God..I was in tears at the end…What a fabulous story…Thank you Martha. 🌺
This feels like it should be a movie or something! Very well written! ❤❤❤
Simply Beautiful....
I have listened to a lot of these books, loving everyone of them. This one was so emotional. I cried through the whole thing thank you for the time and energy you put in writing it as well as the narration.
A totally fresh story idea - what a pleasure!
Excellent narrator! Book was so good.
What an outstanding story. I am devistated that it's over. And this is the second time I have listened to it.
What a wonderful story. Thank you for sharing it with us. 💖
Stunning finish to a wonderful story of human struggle
Absolutely Loved it! Thank You So For Sharing it❤
Beautiful. I was anticipating a Ken Follet type antagonist and am glad there wasn’t
I hardly ever write a review on a book, but Wow! What an amazing and intense storyline! Beyond 5 stars. Thank you.
Very good book and a
great narrator. Thank you.❤😊
Really enjoyed this book, thank you so much for uploading it. 👏👏
You're very welcome!
Very excited to hear all of this! Very good so far!
So good! I listened to this entire audiobook in one day 😅 I couldn't stop!
This one is hard to top. I Do hope that you have another.
This is a fortuitous find! I was wondering what someone with a Scottish and Irish parent might feel like-this answered my question-and its a wonderful story. Ta!🏴
thank you! as a nurse i could relate very much ...liked and ahared
Beautifully told story.
Thank you for releasing this Martha. It's timely considering what we're learning about the mishandling of the global pandemic response. My wish is on behalf of today's vaccine injured and how I wish everyone could understand the story you tell here; that people a long time ago also gave their lives during the development of a smallpox vaccine and that maybe today's injured might receive the recognition they deserve for their sacrifice.
In my research, it was amazing to read about the arguments from both sides of the aisle and how little they have changed in over two hundred years. I hope we can all be more understanding of one another--that's when true progress happens!
I often wonder how many people gave their lives when they studied acupuncture.
@@suzie2z touché 🤗
@@AuthorMarthaKeyesprogress is seen by many as sent by Beelzebub to weaken their Faith.
I’m just trying p
This taught me so much
Loved this story.
The book was so well written, drawing you into the story. Even though most of us have a very bad taste in our mouth after the vaccine circus that we have just been through, I still managed to enjoy the book. I'm glad that you brought out how the vaccine itself spread the disease in that particular case, just as we have witnessed in modern days. The writing was superb and the narration was beautifully done. I will definitely want to read your other books!
FYI
Variolation is not vaccination. It was a precursor to vaccination, first developed by the Chinese. Vaccination is a much safer way of saving lives.
@@cathrionakilgarriff9620 thank you! Many of us have been horrified by the mass experiment that just occured without consent, So I listened to the story through that filter and still enjoyed it! Very well written!
Vaccines have saved thousands +thousands more lives. As a senior citizen, the COVID vaccines certainly saved mine, seeing as I myself contracted a severe case of the virus. Perhaps some of the people leaving comments here would do well to research the Polio pandemic, especially during the 1940s’, 50s’ & 60s’, and how many thousands plus thousands more, lives of schoolchildren were saved thanks to the Salk vaccine. We were exceedingly grateful for the discovery of that vaccine because it meant that we could attend school. And almost everyone personally knew of a family who had at least one case of polio, ending in an early death, wherein the parents of the children refused to have the children vaccinated.
Love your stories
Thank you so much! I'm so happy you enjoy them
Lovely story.
Excellently engaging
Well done!
A very good read. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Ahhh I love the story. It's a different kind of romance.
So good ❤
Love this❤
Brilliant
You’re right about some things never changing. Even though my family member continues effects of long term COVID, is vaccine damaged for life, her eyes are closed to the fact that the virus plus vaccines have contributed significantly to her debilitating health. Her health was compromised by thyroid disease and autoimmune problems prior to COVID, and with all the peer reviewed information available she will still take the next vaccination or booster as soon as it becomes available. So I have to agree with you the spirit of the old Calvinism is alive and well, in reverse. This wonderful book makes this a very statement if people are allowed to make their own choices. People had to fight for their own choices then and we have to stand for right choices now or lose.
So true
There's that quote from "Starman": "You humans are interesting: you're at your best, when things are at their worst."
The only thing I wondered while I listened to this story was about the servants who willingly cared for everyone who was sick. Had they all been inoculated? They just suddenly appeared in the story without any reference to their own suffering.
It was explained. Several were from outside the village and had been virulated. The ones that hadn’t were given the choice to either undergo virulation or leave. Just one of them chose not to, a maid. She went in stead back to her mother who I believe lived elsewere.
And how Helen didn't get the virus...
Both Helen and her husband had the illness as children though very mildly, not like Ayla. Graham's uncle took all his servants to another outside town where they were virulated.
Listening 30 July 2023
My mother told me of a beautiful 16 year old cousin who died from what she called the black smallpox. She worked in a hotel and must have caught it from someone who came through Childress, Texas and stayed in the hotel. Her father and my grandfather were the only ones to care for her because they had had smallpox years before. Her body was taken to a charnel house across from the cemetery. She was wrapped in a sheet and buried at midnight. So sad.
I've heard it said Calvinism killed the gospel in Scotland. Sadly the Calvinist reform theology which is resurging today came from the formally gnostic monk Augustine. The notion of limited Atonement had no place in the early church and is not scriptural. The fatalism the church leaders insist on in the story is part of Calvinism.
Ye can ayr ken the hous o a “Wee Free” Elder frae the pile o chuckies alang side his door.
So he is aye ready to cerry oot God’s Word: “Let him wi’oot sin amang ye cast the first stane!!”
St Augustine was the Bishop of Hippo, dying as the Vandals overran the city. His great works are still in print today. Rest assured nobody will ever read your historical, philosophical or your theological works.
The historical turning point - Scotland lost to the English protestant tyrants at Culloden.
So how do you understand the verse that says Jacob I love and Esau I hated. Malachi 1:2-3
@mikimeadows you're all over the place. Calvinism is absolute heresy. St Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, dying as the Vandals overran the city doesn't fit in the category you've placed him, and what's your objection to the Irish. St Patrick, the first missionary to Ireland, was as rock solid Catholic as St Augustine.
This was a very compelling story! What led you to write it?
Thank you so much! I did my postgraduate education in Public Health, so when I found information about variolation differences between the highlands and lowlands during historical research, I knew I wanted to write the story
@@AuthorMarthaKeyesim so grateful you did!! 🫶🏻🫶🏻
Amazing story. Couldn’t help but compare people’s reaction toward Covid’s vaccine to that of some characters in your story. some things never change 😅
do you
still not understand the harm that has been done because of the Covid vaccine? You need to do some research.
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This is remarkably slow moving. Result? Boredom
Mr Smith’s “Kelvisaheed” accent is spot on!
Just perfect for the “Holier than thou Willies” with which Scotland’s Session Rooms were infested!!
4:37:10. I am reminded of the marginal notation discovered in a Calvinist Mister’s sermon “Shout loudly here: argument weak.”
08:31;00 Typical woman! 🙄