An Orkney Boyhood

An entertaining memoir of a post-war childhood, growing up and living on Burray in the Orkney Islands off Scotland’s north coast among the author’s reminiscences are: the town hall cinema, neep hoeing competitions, encountering jelly fish at Scapa Flow, being lowered into the well to sort out the family’s water supply one dry summer, cutting peats and, a highlight of the year, the traditional New Year’s Day ba’ game (‘more like a small scale civil war’). These recollections of island life sixty will fascinate and amuse the modern-day reader.

Publisher NMS Enterprises Ltd – Publishing, co-published with the European Ethnological Research Centre, as part of the Flashbacks series, General Editor Alexander Fenton.