The gathering night
By: Margaret Elphinstone
Publisher: Canongate
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 375
ISBN-13: 9781847672889
Subjects: Stone age; Fiction; Missing persons; Natural disasters
Description: Between Grandmother Mountain and the cold sea, Alaia and her family live off the land. But when one of her brothers goes hunting and never returns, the fragile balance of life is upset. Half-starved and maddened with grief, Alaia's mother follows her visions and goes in search of her lost son.