"1843. On a remote Scottish island, Ivar, the sole occupant, leads a life of quiet isolation until the day he finds a man unconscious on the beach below the cliffs. The newcomer is John Ferguson, an impoverished church minister sent to evict Ivar and turn the island into grazing land for sheep. Unaware of the stranger's intentions, Ivar takes him into his home," . RSL Ondaatje Prize (2025), Saltire Society Literary Award Nominee for Fiction Book of the Year (2024) © 2025 Goodreads
