The Stornoway Way
Book description
'Fuck everyone from Holden Caulfield to Bridget Jones, fuck all the American and English phoney fictions that claim to speak for us; they don't know the likes of us exist and they never did. We are who we are because we grew up the Stornoway way. We do not live…
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To me, this book is the quintessentially Hebridean novel in existence. My paternal grandmother hailed from the Isle of Lewis (or Eilean Leòdhais, to give the island its proper Gaelic name), as did her parents and their parents, and so on back ad infinitum. I’ve always loved the wild beauty of the place. Lewis feels like Home with a capital H. It has a long history of poetry and song, but until fairly recently, not many novels have emerged from those shores.
This book impressed me on several levels. Kevin MacNeil eloquently articulates the difficult duality experienced by many Lewis…
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