In recent years the Scottish Islands have provided rugged backdrops to a spate of fiction: the excellent Shetland series by Ann Cleeves, and the superb Lewis trilogy by Peter May. Now, Maggie Allder weighs in with a stunning thriller.
The author takes one to the heart of human darkness in a tense, evocative story that is claustrophobic and set in a time when the world has been ravaged by apocalyptic climate change. The writing is impressive, addressing through fiction some of the real problems facing an overpopulated world today. I loved this uniqueness of the central quartet of characters: Marie, Malcolm, …