This is a bewitching and atmospheric collection of short stories celebrating life and love: the world ripens as a baby stirs in its mother's womb; a soldier captured at Bannockburn sees the daughter of his jailor bathing and falls in love; two ghosts become reconciled with death; and, an eighteenth-century tale of piracy and treachery. George Mackay Brown's distinctive voice has a clarity and resonance that blends the magical with the mundane, and the present with the past.
- ISBN10 055023005X
- ISBN13 9780550230058
- Publish Date 28 January 1993 (first published 1 November 1978)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 11 June 1998
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Chambers
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 327
- Language English