Set in 1956 in an isolated village in the Scottish Highlands, Scott's slow-paced debut centers on the death of eight-year-old Jamie Fraser, who's found in a canal ...
In Scott’s appealing third novel set in the 1950s Scottish Highlands (after 2011’s A Double Death on the Black Isle), the arrest of Donal McLeod, the Highland Gazette’s deputy editor, for fatally ...
Over the period of a century or so, the Scottish Highlands underwent a dramatic and permanent drop in population. Huge numbers of Highlanders migrated from their home regions to other places. Highland ...