Alex Peake-Tomkinson

An unenviable mission: Clear, by Carys Davies, reviewed

It is 1843, the year of the Great Disruption in the Scottish Church, and an impoverished minister is being paid to clear a lonely North Sea island of any remaining inhabitants

Carys Davies.
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    Carys Davies

    Granta, pp. 160, £12

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