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From the bestselling author of The Bookseller of Inverness comes the unforgettable story of a Scottish town on the cusp of change and the group of townspeople whose lives will be irrevocably altered over the course of one tumultuous year.

A riveting portrait of a small community slowly transforming as the wider world begins to upend its old ways

Credible and immersive

An unforgettable story

'[A] rich, insightful portrait of a community . . . MacLean's impressive novel reveals lives changed and challenged by larger historical forces that her characters do not fully understand'

Beautifully written and wonderfully evocative , but also tangentially tackles some really meaty subjects - slavery, grave robbery, cholera, political unrest, emigration - although, as ever, MacLean wears her learning lightly.

S. G. MacLean (Shona) has a PhD in History from the University of Aberdeen. She is the author of two historical crime series - the Alexander Seaton series, set in seventeenth century Scotland and the Damian Seeker series, set in Oliver Cromwell's London, for which she has twice won the CWA Historical Dagger. Her standalone Jacobite thriller, The Bookseller of Inverness , was Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year 2023. Shona lives in Conon Bridge, Scotland.