The Road Dance
Published on 1. April 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
216 pages
978-1-84282-040-7 (ISBN)
Description
Kirsty MacLeod is a beautiful young woman, coveted by all the young men of her island village. She dreams of America, of following the setting sun west to a better life. She meets the man who dreams her dreams and promises to make them come true. But then the Great War breaks out and the men must leave for battle. In their honour, the islanders organise a grand Road Dance.
That night she is raped. She is left with a secret that will bring shame upon her and her family and ultimately on the child she is carrying. On a night of storms and sorrow, she has to make her choice and it is no choice at all.
That night she is raped. She is left with a secret that will bring shame upon her and her family and ultimately on the child she is carrying. On a night of storms and sorrow, she has to make her choice and it is no choice at all.
Reviews / Votes
Powerful, shocking, heartbreaking. - Scottish Daily Mail.[MacKay] has captured time, place and atmosphere superbly... - Meg Henderson.
a gripping plot that subtly twists and turns, vivid characterisation, and a real sense of time and tradition, this is an absorbing, powerful first novel. - Scots Magazine
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Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 177 mm
Width: 112 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
180 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84282-040-7 (9781842820407)
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Person
JOHN MACKAY was born in Glasgow in 1965 and has drawn on the oral traditions of his Hebridean background to write this Hebridean set trilogy. John MacKay is a journalist and newsreader for STV and presents the STV News at Six and Scotland Tonight.