title: Laxdale Hall (novel)
text: # Laxdale Hall (novel)
  
  Laxdale Hall is a 1951 comedy novel by the British writer Eric Linklater. A community in the West Highlands refuses to pay its taxes unless it receives a new road.
  
  ## Adaptation
  
  It was adapted into the 1953 film of the same title directed by John Eldridge and starring Ronald Squire, Kathleen Ryan and Raymond Huntley.
  
  