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As the Women Lay Dreaming

Donald S Murray

From Shelf: Good Old Scottish Fiction

A haunting, award-winning and multi-award-nominated novel of the Iolaire disaster, written by a son of the Hebrides.

WINNER: PAUL TORDAY MEMORIAL PRIZE 2020. In the small hours of January 1st, 1919, the cruellest twist of fate changed at a stroke the lives of an entire community. Tormod Morrison was there that terrible night. He was on board HMY Iolaire when it smashed into rocks and sank, killing some 200 servicemen on the very last leg of their long journey home from war. For Tormod - a man unlike others, with artistry in his fingertips - the disaster would mark him indelibly. Two decades later, Alasdair and Rachel are sent to the windswept Isle of Lewis to live with Tormod in his traditional blackhouse home, a world away from the Glasgow of their earliest years. Their grandfather is kind, compassionate, but still deeply affected by the remarkable true story of the Iolaire shipwreck - by the selfless heroism and desperate tragedy he witnessed. A deeply moving novel about passion constrained, coping with loss and a changing world, As the Women Lay Dreaming explores how a single event can so dramatically impact communities, individuals and, indeed, our very souls.

Format:
Paperback / softback
Pages:
288
Publisher:
Saraband
ISBN:
9781912235391
Published Date:
8/11/2018
Dimensions:
198mm x 129mm
Category:
Historical fiction

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Format: Paperback / softback

ISBN: 9781912235391

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