The Interloper

The Interloper is a novel about love inheritance and small-town conflicts. Set in early-nineteenth century Scotland it contains an abundance of the dramatic Scottish dialect that author Violet Jacobs was famed for. Praise for Violet Jacob 'Miss Jacob possesses a strong power of realistic description; her pen has a life-giving knack of rendering sounds as well as scenes and she is not without touches of dry humour' - The Times 'Her style is excellent - lucid natural unaffected' - The Spectator Violet Jacob (1 September 1863 – 9 September 1946) was a Scottish writer now known especially for her poetry written mainly in Scots. In 1894 she married Arthur Otway Jacob an Irish Major in the British Army and accompanied him to India where he was serving. The couple had one son Harry born in 1895 who died as a soldier at the battle of the Somme in 1916. Arthur died in 1936 and Violet returned to live at Kirriemuir in Angus. The area of Montrose where her family seat of Dun was situated was the setting for much of her fiction.