Electricity

‘In pencil-written and drawing-spattered notebooks intended for her Australian granddaughter, an elderly woman, now in Edinburgh, remembers and relives her Hebridean childhood. The community thus recreated is one where modernity – its emblem the Electricity of Angus Peter Campbell’s title – collides and overlaps with all sorts of linguistic, cultural and other continuities. But this is no sentimental or elegiac excursion into a long-gone past. What’s evoked here is a powerful sense of what it was, and is, to grow up amid family, neighbours and surroundings of a sort providing, for the most part, both security and happiness.’JAMES HUNTER

Reviews of Electricity

'I enjoyed this book immensely. It reads beautifully, A novel which is as much an act of reverence as a work of fiction.' – LOUIS DE BERNIERES'It's incredibly difficult to express how much the words, the gift for memory and language, in this novel have touched me. I couldn't put it down.' – SELINA SCOTT'A lyrical and earthy novel, full of warmth and wisdom and humour. A story of life and love with a message as eternal as the rocks.' – CATHERINE DEVENEY'I love this beautiful tale. It's like a magic ceilidh!' – KAREN MATHESON'A novel filled with the joy of being alive.' – FR COLIN MACINNES