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This is a maelstrom of a historical period for the Hebrides. The fact that their folk stories and ancient wisdom is taking a drubbing at the hands of the Victorian science surge is only part of it. We also read through the consequences of the land clearances and the crofters' brutally enforced migration. At the knee of an author who makes empathy easy, we feel some of the attitudes and the attendant horror and hopelessness relating to being in a societal class that aren't permitted near enough the social ladder to get on even its lowest wrung. There’s also an aristocrat who's a rather nasty piece of work but this isn't central casting, this is a nugget from life and, in the case of Lord Dunstone, a cruel attitude isn’t something to be kept for the poor.

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