Salt and Skin

Luda, a photographer, and her two teenagers move to the Scottish Northern Isles to start a new life. They encounter the past, shifting landscapes, wild weather, and a thin line between reality and the uncanny. The teenagers make friends but their mother suspects them. The island's history of witch trials still simmers, and folklore and fact intertwine, creating a compelling and magically immersive novel about a family on the edge and a community ensnared by history.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 368 pages
Publication date: 06 July 2023
Publisher: September Publishing

Luda, a photographer, and her two teenagers arrive in the Scottish Northern Isles to start a new life. Everywhere the past shimmers to the surface; the shifting landscapes and wild weather dominate; the line between reality and the uncanny seems thin here. The teenagers forge connections, making friends of neighbors, discovering both longing and dangerous compulsions. But their mother, fallible, obsessive, and distracted, comes up hard against suspicion. The persecution and violence that drove the island's historic witch trials still simmer today, in isolated homes and church buildings, and where folklore and fact intertwine. A compelling and magically immersive novel about a family on the edge and a community ensnared by history, that gathers to an unforgettable ending.

Weight: 302g
Dimension: 128 x 199 x 26 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781914613364