This colorful historical novel based on fact, UP SHE RISES, is the story of Clementina Carey, daughter of a poor crofter on Scotland s forbidding coast, and her astounding rise to fortune. From the very first,Clenentina s life never lacked excitement.When she was a child, her father supplemented his meager eamings as a farmer by smuggling and trading with gypsies. When she came of age, Clementina married a man who was press- ganged into the Navy, and rose to become master of his own fleet. To be with her husband after the battle of Trafalgar, Clementina walked from Forfarshire to Portsmouth, and her adventures on the road form one of her story s many high points. Her husband s later career took Clementina to London, France, Germany and the court of Nicholas I in Russia. UP SHE RISES is the adventurous story of a courageous woman written by a marl who should know: David Garnett, now 85 years old, is Clementina s great-grandson.