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Paperback edition of the novel which evokes a fragile fifties boyhood, set in a Dartmoor village. From the author of "Island Of Wings" which was longlisted for the Orange Prize and shortlisted for the Saltire First Book Award. 'I was enchanted by the magic of her storytelling. This is a novelist with a future' Michael Holroyd

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A novel from a Swedish author, written in English, which explores the island of St Kilda. Beginning in 1830, it follows Lizzie, a young woman who marries a minister and sets out to St Kilda in the hope of converting the islanders to Christianity. 'A beautiful story of love and loss, precise, subtle, spiritually alive' Andrew O'Hagan

Exquisitely written and profoundly moving, "Island of Wings" is a richly imagined debut novel about two people struggling to keep their love, and their family, alive in a place of extreme hardship and unearthly beauty.

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1830. A young woman marries a minister and accompanies him to the remote island of St Kilda in the hope of converting the islanders to Christianity. This is a beautiful, rich and incredibly moving account of a marriage, of two people struggling in the most inhospitable of locations to improve the world of those around them, but most of all, simply to survive and raise their family.