Multi-generational family sagas often have a hint of the contrived about them, especially when certain characters have been shoe-horned into the narrative to embody the social or political concerns of the era, or to mirror its demographic changes.
There are no such issues with Stirring The Dust, which is based entirely upon the experiences of Mary McCabe's ancestors. A family history given a fictional sheen, this book follows the travails of succeeding generations on her mother's side (the Gardens, from Banffshire) and her father's (the Morrows, originally from Argyll).
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