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4 unusual facts about The View from Castle Rock


The View from Castle Rock

Robert and William had moved to the Highlands before the move, while the others followed in the voyage.

Thomas Boston was the local presbyterian preacher at the same time; he wrote on matters of faith, he was obsessed with religious guilt, his ideas were borderline heretical, he had a very hard life.

This narrative retells the lives of members of the Laidlaw family who lived in Ettrick Valley, Scotland, in the 18th century.

The title stems from the event when James took his ten-year-old child Andrew to the top of the Rock of Edinburgh Castle to show him the coast of America (actually Fife).



see also

Thomas Boston

In Alice Munro's short story, No Advantages (The View from Castle Rock 2006), Boston is described briefly.