They were both bystanders and participants in wars, religious conflicts and huge economic and social developments, and in changing class and gender roles.
They represented almost all the main occupations of Lowland Scots over 300 years. ‘The more I wrote,’ says Kathy Galloway, ‘the more I realised that my family was in many regards an archetypal Lowland Scottish family.
Initially intended simply as an imaginative way to record genealogical research, This Is Who We Are turned into an appealing, story-based narrative. One generation is short but the generations are long.
