Mairi Hedderwick

Mairi Hedderwick embarks on a six-month-long journey to 40 islands from Arran to Lewis, recounting her pilgrimage around the archipelago of the Western Isles with which she has had a lifelong love affair. Filled with wit and wisdom that is matched by her spell-binding illustrations, Mairi Hedderwick portrays the islands in all their diversity, with swift and perceptive cameos of everyday life drawn with humour and affection alongside gorgeous landscapes...

Katie Morag's two very different grandmothers, plain Grannie Island and sophisticated Granma Mainland, don't seem to like each other until Granma Mainland's secret beauty formula saves the day for Grannie Island's prize sheep.