Publisher's Synopsis
Alistair Moffat's beautiful memoir recreates his childhood landscape Alistair Moffat grew up in Kelso, in the Scottish Border country. After the deaths of his grandmother, Bina, and his father, he realised that both had conspired to keep hidden what they saw as a shaming family secret. In HOMING he vividly recreates his own working-class childhood in Kelso, and his gradual uncovering of Bina's story will finally explain why his family and others in the small community of Kelso conspired to keep the secret.
