← Nan ShepherdThe Quarry Woodby Nan ShepherdNovel of a young woman seeking independence in rural ScotlandFind on Amazon↗About the authorNan ShepherdShepherd was a Scottish novelist and nature writer whose three novels of the Aberdeen milieu are quietly distinguished achievements. The Living Mountain, her meditation on the Cairngorms, is her most celebrated work.More by Nan ShepherdThe Weatherhouse→A Pass in the Grampians→The Living MountainLyrical meditation on walking and landscape in Scottish mountains→