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by Carys Davies

Scribner/S&S

    In the late 1700s, the Scottish Clearances began. The landowners, deciding it was cheaper to keep sheep on their land than farmers, forcibly evicted the people. Davies imagines a naive clergyman sent to a northern island to remove a last straggler. This is the story of Ivar and John, learning to communicate and to understand each other. And of  John's brave wife Mary who will find a way forward. A beautifully written, without a spare word, account of a strange, sad time.

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