In 1980 the McCloud family welcomes Trevor, their third child and the last to be born on Eilean Fior, a small island off the west coast of Scotland. Life there, on the eve of Trevor's birth, is grim: the population, once in the hundreds, now hovers around thirty; his parents stubbornly maintain the family business, a guesthouse, despite their increasing trouble turning a profit; and a plague of rats threatens to wipe out the island's last remaining hopes. Against this backdrop, and through a series of interlocking narratives spanning from Trevor's birth to the present day, What Ends follows each of the McClouds as they navigate their ever-more fragile lives.
- ISBN10 1936970228
- ISBN13 9781936970223
- Publish Date 31 January 2014
- Publish Status Transferred
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Western Michigan University, New Issues Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 265
- Language English