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The Wind from the Sea
Mark Neilson
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Description for The Wind from the Sea
Hardcover. .
After the First World War, two final stragglers return to North East Scotland to pick up their old lives, Mary Cowie, once a 'gutter quine' or fish gutter, who served with the Elsie Inglis Scottish Women Hospitals field units, and Neil Findlay once the best fishing boat skipper in Buckie, now a shell-shocked wreck. They hope the old life will cure them, but find they have changed too much to settle down again. This is a story of a fishing community following the herring shoals around the coast in their steam drifters, and is rich in local characters ... Read more
After the First World War, two final stragglers return to North East Scotland to pick up their old lives, Mary Cowie, once a 'gutter quine' or fish gutter, who served with the Elsie Inglis Scottish Women Hospitals field units, and Neil Findlay once the best fishing boat skipper in Buckie, now a shell-shocked wreck. They hope the old life will cure them, but find they have changed too much to settle down again. This is a story of a fishing community following the herring shoals around the coast in their steam drifters, and is rich in local characters ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Crowood Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719821608
SKU
V9780719821608
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-4
About Mark Neilson
Mark Neilson is a former academic living in Perth, Scotland. He has written features and fiction for a variety of magazines over the last twenty years; The Wind from the Sea is his fourth novel for Robert Hale.
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