In Another Light
Author(s): Andrew Greig
A stunning novel set in the stark beauty of Orkney and the heady atmosphere of Penang in the 1930s A young man leans over the railings of the ocean liner bound for the exotic shores of Penang. It is early in the 1930s and Dr Alexander Mackay is on his way to take up his post running a maternity hospital in the colony. During the voyage he meets two beautiful sisters and the seeds of a scandal are sown. Seventy years later Edward Mackay wakes after a major brain trauma. In the hazy shadowlands of illness, he conjures the figure of his dead father, a man he knew so little about. This near-death experience provokes a move to the wilds of Orkney, where Edward joins a project to harness the tides around the island as a renewable source of energy. But in the tight-knit island community passions also run high.
General Information
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- : Orion Publishing Co
- : Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
- : 0.345
- : 14 April 2005
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Andrew Greig
- : Paperback
- : New edition
- : 512
- : Modern fiction
More About The Product
WINNER OF THE SALTIRE AWARD Andrew Greig has a terrific track record in paperback. His last novel, That Summer, sold over 70,000 copies 'Greig is a master of his material and unfurls his canvas with meticulous care...tense and poignant' Sunday Telegraph 'Big, rich and as ambitious as any novel by a Scots writer that I have read in years' Allan Massie, Scotsman 'Recuperating from a severe brain injury at his mother's home, Edward Mackay discovers a small box labelled "Penang". In it are mementoes of the father he never knew...the settings flip between the heat and lushness of Thirties Penang and the wild beauty of Orkney today. With his poet's eye, Greig brings both brilliantly to life' Choice
'an island-hoping affair, alternating between present-day Orkney and 1930s Penang.' THE INDEPENDENT 'The dual narratives of father and son run concurrently, and while Edward's near-death experience and the changes it brings about him are compelling... told in measured but insightful prose, IN ANOTHER LIGHT is unsentimental but moving and feels all the more powerful on account of its factual origins. THE OBSERVER
Andrew Greig is a poet and novelist. He has published six volumes of poetry and four novels. He was born in Bannockburn in Scotland and educated at the University of Edinburgh. He lives in Orkney and Sheffield (with his wife the writer Leslie Glaister).
