Emma's Island by Honor Arundel - first published in 1968
One of my favourite books as a child was The High House - also by Honor Arundel. I bought a copy at a library book sale while on a day trip to York for a few pence and read it many times. Years later by chance I came across a second hand copy of Emma's Island, which is a sequel to The High House.
In The High House 13 year old Emma's parents are killed in a car accident and she moves to Edinburgh to live with her absent minded artist aunt Patsy. Emma's Island starts 2 years later by which time Patsy has married fellow artist Stephen and the 3 of them move to the fictional island of Stranday, which is apparently located close to Coll and Tiree in the Inner Hebrides. Patsy and Stephen open a gallery and Emma helps to run the house and quickly adapts to life on an island. Patsy and Stephen have a baby daughter and Emma has her first romantic encounter when some archaeologists come to the island to do an excavation. This is an old fashioned novel, which seems a bit tame today but it is still an engaging story. 7/10
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