Highland River

Having reviewed his life, including fighting in World War I, a mature Scottish man reaches the source of the river he had grown up near in the Highlands. He realizes that the magic he had experienced there as a child was in fact always present in his erstwhile nihilistic life.

Reviews of Highland River

* Looked at either as a sage of the spirit or as a story dressed in all the circumstances of Higland loveliness, Mr Gunn's book has a deep and moving appeal. Evening Standard * Highland River is a novel of unusual distinction. Irish Independent * This book must be read as one would listen to music … scenes are projected with a crystal clarity, sharply defined, with an odd double quality of intense immediacy and a sort of enclosed detachment. Times Literary Supplement