Orkney
By: Amy Sackville
Publisher: Granta
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9781847086648; 9781847086655
Subjects: Married people - Fiction; Psychological fiction; Orkney (Scotland) - Fiction; Fiction
Description: On a remote island in Orkney, a curiously-matched couple arrive on their honeymoon. He is an eminent literature professor; she was his pale, enigmatic star pupil. Alone beneath the shifting skies of this untethered landscape, the professor realises how little he knows about his new bride and yet, as the days go by and his mind turns obsessively upon the creature who has so beguiled him, she seems to slip ever further from his yearning grasp. Where does she come from? Why did she ask him to bring her north? What is it that constantly draws her to the sea?