title: Scottish Girls About Town: And sixteen other Scottish women authors
author: Jenny Colgan
description: "A phenomenal collection of short stories...a genuinely great read."
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  # Dunroamin Holiday
  
  
  
  
  
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  By Grace Burrowes
  
  
  
  
  
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  Dedicated to my late brother-in-law, Dr. Thomas Edwards Polk, II, PhD. Tom
  gave me the first sincere compliment I can recall receiving, and since that
  day (I was about eleven), I’ve stood a little taller and been a little more
  confident.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  ## Chapter One
  
  
  
  
  
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  “Scottish men are hot, fun, and emotionally unavailable,” the travel agent
  chirped. “Exactly what a girl needs for the perfect vacation.”
  
  
  
  
  
  Louise Cameron hadn’t been a girl for years, while the woman madly typing on
  the other side of the desk—Hi, I’m Cindy!—looked like she’d yet to graduate
  high school.
  
  
  
  
  
  “I need peace and quiet,” Louise said, “which is why I’ll spend my time in a
  cottage in the Scottish countryside, more or less by myself.”
  
  
  
  
  
  The agent, a perky exponent of the more-highlights-are-better school of
  cosmetology, swiveled away from her keyboard as a printer purred out an
  itinerary.
  
  
  
  
  
  “The Scottish coun