Blogs in February 2016

The Keening 27th February 2016

The Keening takes you to a rapidly changing Scotland and into the lives of the MacLean family. Her vivid depictions of life and landscape on the Isle of Mull and in urbanizing and industrializing Scotland allow you to be...

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Displacement 31st August 2015

The search for resolution after the upheaval of loss. A journey full of insight, forgiveness and love. Divorce, the death of her soldier son and estrangement from her daughter, leave Hebridean crofter, Rachel Campbell, grief-stricken, lonely and lost. Forced...

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Star Gazing 25th August 2015

Blind since birth, widowed in her twenties, now lonely in her forties, Marianne Fraser lives in Edinburgh in elegant, angry anonymity with her sister, Louisa, a successful novelist. Marianne’s passionate nature finds solace and expression in music, a love...

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Beyond the Sea 19th July 2015

Set on a tiny fictional island off the coast of Mull, Inner Hebrides. One summer’s day, Freya’s husband and son vanish at sea. A year on, and struggling to cope, Freya returns to the lighthouse-keeper’s cottage on a remote...

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To the Lighthouse 31st December 2014

To the Lighthouse is the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf’s novels. It is based on her own early experiences, and while it touches on childhood and children’s perceptions and desires, it is at its most trenchant when exploring adult...

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