A romantic and melodramatic love story set in the Outer Hebrides in the late eighteenth century and involving the fate of the famous Loch Arkaig treasure that disappeared in the aftermath of the 1745 Jacobite Rising.
Neil Munro’s skilful characterisation and artful storytelling create a deeply sensitive parable or fable on the destructiveness of human greed and the vengefulness of the sea.
The story is steeped in Gaelic mythology and scattered with authentic landscape and coastline details of Barra, Uist and Mingulay, scene of the novel’s dreadful climax.
With an introduction by Ronald Renton.
A native of Inveraray, Neil Munro was a journalist by profession and for many years was the editor of the Glasgow Evening News. He is best known for his comic tales about Para Handy, but he also produced a number of historical and contemporary novels, as well as poetry and non-fiction.
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