Bibliograph

Hame, A Novel, Annalena McAfee

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Hame, A Novel, Annalena McAfee

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Hame

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

1002664924

Responsibility statement

Annalena McAfee

Sub title

A Novel

Summary

'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 to unearth the astonishing secret history of the poet regarded by many as the custodian of Fascaray's - and Scotland's soul

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