In Priorsford (1922), O. Douglas returns to the Scottish Borders town-thinly veiled Peebles-to trace quiet transformations of community and heart. Continuing Penny Plain's story, the novel follows Jean Jardine as friendship, duty, and Lord Bidborough's unexpected attentions reconfigure domestic certainties. Douglas's prose is limpid, gently ironical, studded with Scots turns of phrase, and attentive to landscape-the river, the hills, the kirk-while ensemble portraits place the book within, yet subtly apart from, the Kailyard tradition. Anna Masterton Buchan, writing as O. Douglas, grew up in Peebles and published during the unsettled interwar years. Her Border upbringing, Presbyterian sensibility, and long observation of small-town ritual give the novel its affectionate exactness, while the war's after-echo steadies its moral tone. As John Buchan's sister, she shared a craftsmanlike discipline but turned it toward domestic comedy and quiet endurance. Readers who value character over incident and atmosphere over sensation will find Priorsford a restorative delight. It belongs on the shelf with interwar Scottish domestic fiction and will reward anyone interested in women's middlebrow writing, Borders social history, or the literature of everyday kindness. Enter it for its serenity; stay for its shrewdness. Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the author's voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readable-distilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Anna Buchan (1877-1948) was a Scottish novelist who wrote under the pen name O. Douglas. She was the younger sister of John Buchan, the renowned statesman and author. Most of her novels were written and set between the wars and portrayed small town or village life in southern Scotland, reflecting her own life.