The Lewis Man is set against the backdrop of the unforgiving Hebridean weather and is richly evocative of the landscape, with May's descriptions of soft black peat, skin-scouring winds, wild flowers and bog cotton. Wild flowers, biting winds and peat bogs. Will he find the resolution to his problems in his childhood home of the bleak Lewis landscape? And how does Marsaili, his former girlfriend and mother of his other son, fit into the picture? When the story reverts to the present day, we meet Fin MacLeod, a former policeman battling to rebuild his life after his son’s death and his subsequent divorce. His story is moving, portraying the religious bigotry souring his childhood, his harsh teenage years at the Dean Orphanage, together with his determination to keep the promise he made to his dying mother. These chapters are poignant, contrasting his present-day mental confusion with his clear memories of the events of fifty years ago. The novel is narrated through third person chapters spliced with those related by the dementia sufferer, Tormod MacDonald. A man who has always claimed to be an only child. sibling match to a local farmer, an elderly man suffering from dementia. The only clue to the identity of the corpse is a D.N.A. It's a murder mystery, centring on the death of a young man found buried in a peat bog on one of the Outer Hebridean islands.
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