Orkney
Feb 2013 · Granta Books
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On a remote island in Orkney, a curiously matched couple arrive on their honeymoon. He is an eminent literature professor; she was his pale, enigmatic star pupil. Alone beneath the shifting skies of this untethered landscape, the professor realises how little he knows about his new bride and yet, as the days go by and his mind turns obsessively upon the creature who has so beguiled him, she seems to slip ever further from his yearning grasp. Where does she come from? Why did she ask him to bring her north? What is it that constantly draws her to the sea?
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Michael Stachura
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April 2, 2017
Slow, ponderous, but intriguing. The ending is wrenching. The novel captures an elemental northern feel, and I'm sure that has something to do with the girl who watches and dreams of the cold, black northern sea. The narrator is eloquent but often frustrating in his expostulations. I will read it again.
About the author
AMY SACKVILLE was born in 1981. She studied English and Theatre Studies at Leeds, and went on to do an MPhil in English at Exeter College, Oxford, and an MA in Creative & Life Writing at Goldsmiths. Her first novel was The Still Point. www.amysackville.co.uk
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