Lead Review

• Book: Island Wife
• Location: The Hebrides
• Author: Judy Fairbairns

Brave, funny, poignant, beautifully written – in Island Wife, Judy Fairbairns tells a tale of cosseted girl who abandons all for love of a man who offers a life in which nothing is certain and everything changes. A story of triumph and disaster, joy and despair, the loneliness of motherhood and the companionship of children. But above all it’s a story of the struggle to make the dream come true in a crazy tumbledown mansion in a wild corner of the most beautiful of the silvery sisters of the Hebrides, with a husband who was not, in spite of it all, a mistake. (Elisabeth Luard, food-writer, journalist, and broadcaster )

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