Knockan by Jim Carruth award winning In searching for the light

In searching for the light within it

  Despite the fact that My Life as Painter is his 12th collection

swimming and the sea

this gentle

Knockan by Jim Carruth award winning In searching for the lightIn 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.