Winner of the Blue Lynx Prize for 2010At last, here is a beautiful new book from Lou Lipsitz's, one of the great, clear voices of the Vietnam War era. The early work was much admired for its crystalli
Summer 1930 on St Kilda a wild, remote Scottish island. Two strangers from drastically different worlds meet . . . Eighteen year old Effie Gillies has lived all her life on St Kilda; shes the best climber on the island, as skilled and brave as any of the men.But in matters of the heart, shes an innocent, and when Lord Sholto, heir to the Earl of Dumfries, visits, the attraction between them is instant. For one glorious week she guides the handsome young visitor around the isle, falling in love for the first time until a storm hits and her world falls apart. Three months later, St Kilda falls silent as the islanders are evacuated for a better life on the mainland. With her friends and family scattered, Effie is surprised to be offered a position working on the Earls estate, but seeing Sholto in polite society isnt the reunion shed hoped for.And when a body is discovered on the abandoned isle a few days later, she wonders if this is really a new beginning or just an ending she cant escap
