Pages
272
Year
2014
Language
English

About

In a Victorian mansion hotel on a Scottish island, a group of English Literature lecturers and students from Glasgow gather for a residential weekend. The weekend proves to be a major turning point in the emotional lives of several people - just not quite in the way any of them expected.

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Reviews

"Remarkable . . . everything in the novel is illuminated by the play of a subtle, sceptical and yet affirmative intelligence"
Allan Massie
"The great McIlvanney themes - class, guilt, the power of the book, the difficulty of goodness - are all there, seething under the surface"
Stuart Kelly

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