Publisher's Synopsis
The Orkneys are the setting for these two stories one of which depicts the slow decline of an island community which was dependent on the sea for its livelihood. The other looks at the life of a typical young Orkneyman who devotes his latter years to the hard cycle of labour on a small croft.;The author has spent all his life in the Orkneys and has written novels, short stories and two non-fiction book about his native islands.
