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It is certainly an unusual novel for its time when the Scottish Kailyard school of writing was still at its height &
By the middle of the 19th century the " Kailyard school " of prose had become the dominant literary genre, overtaking poetry.
Writers of the Kailyard school included J . M . Barrie ( better known for his later creation of Peter Pan ), Ian Maclaren, S . R . Crockett.
Other well-known authors like Robert Louis Stevenson, William Alexander, George MacDonald, J . M . Barrie and other members of the Kailyard school like Ian Maclaren also wrote in Scots or used it in dialogue.
Set in mid-19th century Ayrshire, in the fictitious town of Barbie which is based on his native Ochiltree, it consciously violates the conventions of the sentimental kailyard school, and is sometimes quoted as an influence on the Scottish Renaissance.