Beside the Ocean of Time

WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY AMY LIPTROT

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 1994

WINNER OF THE SALTIRE SOCIETY LITERARY AWARD 1994

‘Intimate, humorous, effortlessly combining the strands of history and folklore, the past and the present, this is a deceptively simple book, like a tale told to a child. But its echoes sound on unforgettably. A whole universe is created from a grain of Orkney sand’ Independent

In …