Clear
$22.40
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
29 July 2025
Summary
Clear: A Highland Tale of Isolation and Connection
- On a remote Scottish island, Ivar, the sole occupant, leads a life of quiet isolation until he discovers an unconscious man on the beach below the cliffs.
The newcomer is John Ferguson, an impoverished church minister sent to evict Ivar and transform the island into grazing land for sheep. Unaware of John’s mission, Ivar welcomes him into his home, and despite the language barrier, a fragile bond begins to form.…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781803510422 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1803510420 |
| Author: | Carys Davies |
| Publisher: | Granta Books |
| Imprint: | Granta Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 29 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 124g |
| Dimensions: | 16mm x 198mm x 130mm |
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“Tender, riveting and inventive is Clear, the newest offering and masterpiece from the brilliant Carys Davies. It will take your breath away” Sarah Jessica Parker“An exquisite, hopeful masterpiece” Rachel Joyce “A poignant, profound depiction of both solitude and connection. Carys Davies has written a masterful, discreetly sublime book” Hernan Diaz
About The Author
Carys Davies
Carys Davies is the author of two novels, The Mission House (Granta, 2020) and West (Granta, 2018), which won the Wales Book of the Year Fiction award, was Runner-Up for the Society of Author’s McKitterick Prize and was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize. Her short stories have been widely published in magazines and anthologies and broadcast on BBC Radio 4, and have won the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize, the Society of Authors’ Olive Cook Award, the Royal Society of Literature’s V S Pritchett Prize, and a Northern Writers’ Award. Davies’ second collection, The Redemption of Galen Pike, won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award 2015.
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