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1987 | McVities Prize for Scottish Writer of the Year
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'Thomson has a Proust-like memory for detail and everything seems to fit the place and time' - Financial Times Set in the 1920s, this marvellously sensitive autobiography recreates the varied community of Nairn, with its fishermen and townsfolk, its crofters and its prosperous upper-middle-classes. Nairn has witnessed many of the triumphs and tragedies of Scottish history, and these are recalled with intuitive understanding. But it is also the scene of David Thomson's formative years when he suffered an eye injury which nearly blinded him and shaped his whole future. Winner of the McVitie's Prize and the first NCR Book Award For Non-Fiction

About the Author :
David Thomson was born in India in 1914 to Scottish parents, but grew up in Scotland and Derbyshire. He is the author of The People of the Sea, In Camden Town and Woodbrook. He developed a career in writing and at the BBC. He died in 1988.

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The effect might echo Proust, or Alain-Fournier; the tone is completely distinctive Long matured, an exceptional malt of the mind... David Thomson's book is one that can be returned to time and time again to refresh with its vision and the brilliance of its writing His writing combines a feel for the "this-worldness" of his characters' lives with an understanding of the "otherworldness" they keep a place for in their consciousness. Which is a way of saying that the stylistic achievement depends upon a deep imaginative sympathy A brilliantly original mix of love story, memoir and history


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780099599906
  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Vintage
  • Height: 198 mm
  • No of Pages: 320
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Width: 129 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0099599902
  • Publisher Date: 06 Oct 1988
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 278 gr


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