Wartime food rationing is bad enough, but when the whisky supplies run out on the Hebridean islands of Great and Little Todday, nothing seems to go right, until the 50,000 bottle cargo of the shipwrecked SS Cabinet Minister brings salvation.
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Compton Mackenzie was born in West Hartlepool in 1883. He was educated at St. Paul's School and Magdalen College, Oxford. During the First World War he became a Captain in the Royal Marines, becoming Director of the Aegean Intelligence Service. He wrote more than 90 books—novels, history and biography, essays and criticism, children's stories and verse, and was also an outstanding broadcaster. He founded and edited until 1961 the magazine the Gramophone, and was President of the Siamese Cat Club. He lived for many years on the island of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, but later settled in Edinburgh. Compton Mackenzie died in 1972.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A delightful book,
By A Customer
This review is from: Whisky Galore (Hardcover)
This is a novel based on the wreck of the S.S. Politician off the Outer Hebrides during the Second World War. The author lived there at the time and has written an hilarious story. It has good language, good characters, and a good plot.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
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Delightful,
By A Customer
This review is from: Whisky Galore (Hardcover)
A delightfully comic yarn by a master story teller, Whisky Galore tracks the effects of a whisky shortage, and then a whisky surplus, on the fictional islands of Great and Little Todday, in the Scottish Hebrides, during World War II. A tale told with a tremendous love for the people and the heritage of the Hebrides. Highly recommended.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
good amusing sea tale of the scottish hebrides,
By mdoyle@computan.computan.on.ca (Ontario) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Whisky Galore (Audio Cassette)
This is an outrageous story set in the Scottish Hebrides. Two rival islands suffer a lack of any drink due to the conditions caused by the war (WW2). This unfathomable hardship is providentially relieved by the running aground of a ship laden with (what else?) whiskey. Drinking is not this funny any more, so the light treatment it gets here is refreshing. Ha
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