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'Merryn Glover’s The Hidden Fires is not just brave,
it is remarkable' – Sir John Lister-Kaye Elemental,
fierce and full of wonder, the Cairngorm mountains are the high and
rocky heart of Scotland. To know them would take forever, to love
them demands a kind of courageous surrender. In The Hidden Fires,
Merryn Glover undertakes that challenge with Nan Shepherd as
companion and guiding light. Following in the footsteps and
contours of The Living Mountain, she explores the same landscapes
and themes as Shepherd’s seminal work. This is a journey
separated by time but unified by space and purpose, a conversation
between two women across nearly a century that explores how
entering the life of a mountain can illuminate our own. An
Australian who grew up in the Himalayas, her early experiences of
the Scottish hills and weather left her cold. But gradually
acclimatising and with an approach like Shepherd’s, that is more
mountain wandering than mountaineering, she discovers the spark
that sets the hills and herself on fire. Through Glover’s
deepening encounter, the wild majesty and iridescence of the
Cairngorms is revealed in this beautiful evocation of landscape,
place and identity.
'An enthralling mystery, family saga and Sunset Song-esque ode to
the land' - The Herald, 25 Summer Reads Longlisted for the Highland
Book Prize 2021 Winner of the Bookmark Book Festival Book of the
Year 2021 After Highland shepherd Colvin Munro disappears, a
mysterious trail of his possessions is found in the Cairngorm
mountains. Writing the eulogy for his memorial years later, his
foundling-sister Mo seeks to discover why he vanished. Younger
brother Sorley is also haunted by his absence and driven to reveal
the forces that led to Colvin's disappearance. Is their brother
alive or dead? Set on a farming estate in the upper reaches of the
River Spey, Of Stone and Sky follows several generations of a
shepherding family in a paean to the bonds between people, their
land and way of life. It is a profound mystery, a passionate poem,
a political manifesto, shot through with wisdom and humour.
'Merryn Glover's The Hidden Fires is not just brave, it is
remarkable' - Sir John Lister-Kaye Elemental, fierce and full of
wonder, the Cairngorm mountains are the high and rocky heart of
Scotland. To know them would take forever, to love them demands a
kind of courageous surrender. In The Hidden Fires, Merryn Glover
undertakes that challenge with Nan Shepherd as companion and
guiding light. Following in the footsteps and contours of The
Living Mountain, she explores the same landscapes and themes as
Shepherd's seminal work. This is a journey separated by time but
unified by space and purpose, a conversation between two women
across nearly a century that explores how entering the life of a
mountain can illuminate our own. An Australian who grew up in the
Himalayas, her early experiences of the Scottish hills and weather
left her cold. But gradually acclimatising and with an approach
like Shepherd's, that is more mountain wandering than
mountaineering, she discovers the spark that sets the hills and
herself on fire. Through Glover's deepening encounter, the wild
majesty and iridescence of the Cairngorms is revealed in this
beautiful evocation of landscape, place and identity.
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