Life at Bogmyrtle Farm is hard for the MacKinnons and, as soon as she's old enough, it's the city for Helen MacKinnon. There she picks herself a husband, but back in the country Audie Foubister's drawbacks become painfully apparent.

As the First World War gathers in its grim harvest, Helen finds unexpected passion in the arms of Meldrum Spark, the tinker who entices her to follow him for a life on the road...

Blown Seed is the evocative saga of rural life in Buchan written by David Toulmin and made vividly real by his many years working on the land as a farm labourer.

'Fascinating ... the reader can practically taste the oatcakes, feel the raw wind'
Sunday Mail

'His literary talent is a thing of wild and simple beauty, rippling like corn in the wind'
Daily Express