num_pages: 192
description: ``A hauntingly beautiful memoir.'' The Literary Review The celebrated Scottish writer George Mackay Brown wrote this moving memoir in the years before his death in 1996, wishing it to be published posthumously. Here, his simple poetic honesty is turned upon himself. 192 pp 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
language: English
title: For the Islands I Sing: An Autobiography
titlecomplete: For the Islands I Sing: An Autobiography
characters: Robert Rendall, Ernest Marwick, George Mackay Brown
genres: Biography, Scotland, Memoir, Nonfiction, Autobiography
ratings_count: 105
places: Orkney, Scotland
publisher: John Murray Pubs Ltd