Book description
Fuck everyone from Holden Caulfield to Bridget Jones, fuck all the
American and English phoney fictions that claim to speak for us; they
don t know the likes of us exist and they never did. We are who we are
because we grew up the Stornoway way. We do not live in the back of
beyond, we live in the very heart of beyond
Meet R Stornoway, drink-addled misfit, inhabitant of the Hebridean
Isle of Lewis, and meandering man fighting to break free of an island
he just can t seem to let go of
Kevin MacNeil was born and raised on the Isle of Lewis. He was
British Council Writer in Residence at Uppsala University, Sweden,
2002-3 and inaugural Iain Crichton Smith Writing Fellow in the
Scottish Highlands. His poetry has been translated into 10 languages
and he has performed his English and Gaelic work in places as diverse
as Columbia, Malta, America, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Sweden and the
Czech Republic. He has also written for radio, television and film.
This is his first novel.
A lyrically powerful and no-holds-barred exploration of contemporary
life in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. The novel is rendered by means
of a multiplicity of arresting narrativve voices, shared between the
author and his pseudonymous compatriot 'R. Stornoway'.
