Swansong / Kerry Andrew.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Andrew, Kerry, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Scotland--Highlands--Fiction.

Women.

Recluses--Scotland--Highlands--Fiction.

Recluses.

Man-woman relationships--Scotland--Highlands--Fiction.

Man-woman relationships.

Highlands (Scotland)--Fiction.

Highlands (Scotland).

Scotland--Highlands.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

341 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London Jonathan Cape, an imprint of Vintage Publishing, 2018.

Summary:

In this stunningly assured, immersive and vividly atmospheric first novel, a young woman comes face-to-face with the volatile, haunted wilderness of the Scottish Highlands. Polly Vaughan is trying to escape the ravaging guilt of a disturbing incident in London by heading north to the Scottish Highlands. As soon as she arrives, this spirited, funny, alert young woman goes looking for drink, drugs and sex - finding them all quickly, and unsatisfactorily, with the barman in the only pub. She also finds a fresh kind of fear, alone in this eerie, myth-drenched landscape. Increasingly prone to visions or visitations - floating white shapes in the waters of the loch or in the woods - she is terrified and fascinated by a man she came across in the forest on her first evening, apparently tearing apart a bird. Who is this strange loner? And what is his sinister secret? Kerry Andrew is a fresh new voice in British fiction; one that comes from a deep understanding of the folk songs, mythologies and oral traditions of these islands. Her powerful metaphoric language gives Swansong a charged, hallucinatory quality that is unique, uncanny and deeply disquieting.

ISBN:

9781911214229

1911214225

OCLC:

1023593176