The narrator, Drost, tells the story, through a series of waking dreams, of his life in Bronze Age Scotland from his childhood, as the chosen companion and help-mate of his future "king", up to his own approaching death.

A tale of greed and love, smugglers and kidnapping set in the wild Outer Hebrides.

The narrator, Drost, tells the story, through a series of waking dreams, of his life in Bronze Age Scotland from his childhood, as the chosen companion and help-mate of his future "king", up to his own approaching death.

This is the story of an orphaned American girl who arrives in Scotland to stay with relatives. Against all odds and without losing her new family, she manages to become an actress in London and to liberate herself from the religious attitudes of small town Scotland.

This novel about life in the West Highlands deals with a single week in the affairs of a small coastal village. A series of meetings are the settings in which the locals try to resolve their differences over public issues, as well as more personal ones - not least being, who stole the lobster?