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A remote fishing village in Scotland seems the perfect place for Betsy Gillander to abscond for a few days with her fianc . There, in a landscape marred only by a vast MoD range away to the west, the pale winter sun lights up this next step in her happy and structured life.But then a violent storm wraps itself around the village and for three days the couple are trapped in their hotel. The enfo...
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146,74 DKK
Forlag
Transworld Digital
Udgivet
24 april 2012
Længde
368 sider
Genrer
Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781448109227
A remote fishing village in Scotland seems the perfect place for Betsy Gillander to abscond for a few days with her fianc . There, in a landscape marred only by a vast MoD range away to the west, the pale winter sun lights up this next step in her happy and structured life.But then a violent storm wraps itself around the village and for three days the couple are trapped in their hotel. The enforced intimacy opens Betsy's eyes to the indolent cruelty of the man she's agreed to marry, while in the hotel bar the locals gather, increasingly anxious for news of a boat still out at sea. By the time the sun reappears, Betsy's fianc has left her and she is adrift in a community shattered by the loss of the boat and seven of its sons. The pain of her break-up in the face of such tragedy produces in her a terrible guilt and Betsy finds herself drawn into a cloistered, close-knit community with a morality far beyond her understanding...