The Sun's Net - Softcover

'Brown uses language with beautiful precision, resource and power.' THE SUNDAY TIMES 'His sense of the world and his way with words [became] powerfully at one with each other.' SEAMUS HEANEY 'He gave one hope for poetry and language.' PETER LEVI

This is a bewitching and atmospheric collection of short stories celebrating life and love: the world ripens as a baby stirs in its mother's womb; a soldier captured at Bannockburn sees the daughter of his jailor bathing and falls in love; two ghosts become reconciled with death; and, an eighteenth-century tale of piracy and treachery. George Mackay Brown's distinctive voice has a clarity and resonance that blends the magical with the mundane, and the present with the past.