HAME HARVILL
HARVILL
A rich sultry ambitious novel about a young American writer curator fleeing a crumbling marriage in New York who travels with her nine year old daughter to one of the remote islands in the north of Scotland birthplace of her grandfather Commissioned to set up a museum there and to write the biography of the island s celebrated poet and chronicler Mhairi McPhail is slowly drawn in by the complicated life she is uncovering and writing about the Bard of Fascaray as she finds herself being transformed awakened by the ferocity and power of the island Who was the celebrated poet Grigor McWatt The Bard of Fascaray What was his past Details of his life are elusive As Mhairi struggles to adapt to her island life and put her disappointment and troubles behind her she begins to unearth the astonishing secret history of the poet regarded by many as the custodian of Fascaray s and Scotland s soul In McAfee s rich novel of invented island life she interweaves extracts from Mhairi s journal entries her discoveries and writings of McWatt and tales of Fascaray itself into a resonant compelling dimensional narrative that at its heart explores identity love belonging and the universal quest for home Yayınevi HARVILL Yazar ANNALENA MCAFEE Dil İNGİLİZCE Sayfa Sayısı 577 Yıl 2016
