Book review: Hame

Mhairi McPhail flees her crumbling marriage in New York by moving with her daughter to the tiny Scottish island that her grandparents left decades earlier, ostensibly to write a biography about its late nationalist poet, Grigor McWatt.

Sat, 25 Mar, 2017 - 00:00

Review: Natalie Bowen

Annalena McAfee

Harvill Secker, £16.99

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