22-05-2025
Nan Shepherd is on £5 note — buy her home for 100,000 of them
For more than eight decades one of Scotland's greatest mystic poets and novelists of the 20th century lived in an elegant Victorian granite five-bedroom semi on the outskirts of Aberdeen.
Nan Shepherd spent her life in Dunvegan, in Cults, with its lush gardens and great bay windows opening up spectacular views of Lower Deeside.
Now the property where she moved shortly after she was born and only left shortly before her death at 88 in 1981 is up for sale, at offers over £490,000.
The writer, whose work has enjoyed a 21st-century resurgence in popularity and respect, inherited the home from her wealthy parents. Coming of age during the First World War — when men were in short supply — Shepherd never married. But, eschewing
