In Another Light Greig AndrewPaperback
In Another Light Greig AndrewPaperback 'Two small, confined communities in which established connections are cut across by shifting allegiances as people come and go: in cold climate as in hot, now…
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In Another Light Greig AndrewPaperback
'Two small, confined communities in which established connections are cut across by shifting allegiances as people come and go: in cold climate as in hot, now as then, love is a complicated, compromising business' Times Literary Supplement A young man leans over the railings of the ocean liner bound for the exotic shores of Penang. During the voyage he meets two beautiful sisters and the seeds of a scandal are sown. It is early in the 1930s and Dr Alexander Mackay is on his way to take up his post running a maternity hospital in the colony.
In the hazy shadowlands of illness, he conjures the figure of his dead father, a man he knew so little about. Seventy years later Edward Mackay wakes after a major brain trauma. This near-death experience provokes a move to the wilds of Orkney, where Edward joins a project to harness the tides around the island as a renewable source of energy. But in