Knockan by Jim Carruth greek fifty years after her death

fifty years after her death in a fire at her home in St Ives

legacies of violence and loss but - ultimately - regeneration

Spring is packed full of verse celebrating new beginnings and all that the future might hold

Warning: this book contains Marmite

that such an equilibrium between history and art is not only possible

Knockan by Jim Carruth greek fifty years after her deathIn remote Assynt, where the past is recreated from rock and bone, a crofter and her estranged daughter search for some common ground in their annual week together. Rooted in the landscape and history of North West Scotland, this beautifully written and heart breaking novel in verse is an original and powerful exploration of how our lived experience weighs on us, intimately told through the fracturing and repair of a mother and daughter relationship.