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‘Windswept is a wonderful work, prose painted in bold, bright
strokes like a Scottish Colourist's canvas’ ROBERT MACFARLANE
‘I have read pages and pages of this wonderful book, swept away
by its beauty and understanding, its chromatic brilliance’ ADAM
NICOLSON A few years ago, Annie Worsley traded a busy life in
academia to take on a small-holding or croft on the west coast of
Scotland. It is a land ruled by great elemental forces – light,
wind and water – that hold sway over how land forms, where the
sea sits and what grows. Windswept explores what it means to live
in this rugged, awe-inspiring place of unquenchable spirit and wild
weather. Walk with Annie as she lays quartz stones in the river to
reflect the moonlight and attract salmon, as she watches otters
play tag across the beach, as she is awoken by the feral bellowing
of stags. Travel back in time to the epic story of how Scotland’s
valleys were carved by glaciers, rivers scythed paths through
mountains, how the earliest people found a way of life in the
Highlands – and how she then found a home there millennia later.
With stunning imagery and lyrical prose, Windswept evokes a place
where nature reigns supreme and humans must learn to adapt. It is
her paean to a beloved place, one richer with colour, sound and
life than perhaps anywhere else in the UK.
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