Lillias Fraser. A Scotland girl in Portugal. Exile, war and banhishment

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From Scotland (1746) to Portugal, we see the small Lillias Fraser “escape in her child’s escape”.
Escape from war and death. Her house burnt and the absence of her mother´s smell. From Culloden battlefield and her northern grey skies to Lisbon, just before the earthquake. Then, to Almeida, in the middle of the Castillian siege. On the Frontier. Return to Lisbon and cross the Tagus, now towards the South. “How would they survive? Where to stay? Who would accept them at the Frontier?”. Run from, escape, leave, go out her land, deportation, banishment, dislocated, seek “another nation”, arrive at, go to, live at. Finally, to want her child to be born in “no one’s land, on a space between frontiers…” A story of an exiled child, written by Hélia Correia. Portuguese Fiction, 2001. What homes? What mothers? What routes and peoples?