Description
| Product ID: | 9781913393489 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Donald S Murray's Lewis Collection |
| Title: | As the Women Lay Dreaming |
| Authors: | Author: Donald S Murray |
| Page Count: | 288 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Historical fiction, Historical fiction, Western Isles, Outer Hebrides, c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A powerful, poignant and award-winning novel of the UK’s worst peacetime maritime disaster since the Titanic – the 1919 Iolaire tragedy off the coast of Isle of Lewis – written by a son of the Hebrides. In the small hours of January 1st, 1919, the cruellest twist of fate changed at a stroke the lives of an entire community. Tormod Morrison was there that terrible night. He was on board HMY Iolaire when it smashed into rocks and sank, killing some 200 servicemen on the very last leg of their long journey home from war. For Tormod – a man unlike others, with artistry in his fingertips – the disaster would mark him indelibly. Two decades later, Alasdair and Rachel are sent to the windswept Isle of Lewis to live with Tormod in his traditional blackhouse home, a world away from the Glasgow of their earliest years. Their grandfather is kind, compassionate, but still deeply affected by the remarkable true story of the Iolaire shipwreck – by the selfless heroism and desperate tragedy he witnessed. A deeply moving novel about passion constrained, coping with loss and a changing world, As the Women Lay Dreaming explores how a single event can so dramatically impact communities, individuals and, indeed, our very souls. |
| Imprint Name: | Saraband |
| Publisher Name: | Saraband |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-06-02 |
