A stunning novel set in the stark beauty of Orkney and the heady
atmosphere of Penang in the 1930s 'Two small, confined communities
in which established connections are cut across by shifting
allegiances as people come and go: in cold climate as in hot, now
as then, love is a complicated, compromising business' Times
Literary Supplement A young man leans over the railings of the
ocean liner bound for the exotic shores of Penang. It is early in
the 1930s and Dr Alexander Mackay is on his way to take up his post
running a maternity hospital in the colony. During the voyage he
meets two beautiful sisters and the seeds of a scandal are sown.
Seventy years later Edward Mackay wakes after a major brain trauma.
In the hazy shadowlands of illness, he conjures the figure of his
dead father, a man he knew so little about. This near-death
experience provokes a move to the wilds of Orkney, where Edward
joins a project to harness the tides around the island as a
renewable source of energy. But in the tight-knit island community
passions also run high.
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