Hame
Subtitle: the Fascaray archives
By: Annalena McAfee
Publisher: Harvill Secker, an imprint of Vintage
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 577
ISBN-13: 9781911215325; 9781473547230; 9781911215813
Subjects: Fiction; Man-woman relationships; Secrecy
Description: 'Hame, n. Scottish form of 'home': a valued place regarded as a refuge or place of origin.' In the wake of the breakdown of her relationship, Mhairi McPhail dismantles her life in New York and moves with her 9-year-old daughter, Agnes, to the remote Scottish island of Fascaray. Mhairi has been commissioned to write a biography of the late Bard of Fascaray, Grigor McWatt, a cantankerous poet with an international reputation. But who was Grigor McWatt? Details of his past - his tough childhood and his war years as a commando - are elusive, and there is evidence of a mysterious love affair which Mhairi is determined to investigate. As she struggles to adapt to her new life, and put her own troubled past behind her, Mhairi begins tounearth the astonishing secret history of the poet regarded by many as the custodian of Fascaray's - and Scotland's - soul.
Notes: Maps on lining papers.

Includes bibliographical references.