This is Margot McCuaig 's second novel.
Her acclaimed debut, The Birds That Never Flew , was shortlisted for the Dundee International Book Prize and longlisted for the Polari Prize.
This novel is set in Glasgow and Rathlin, and is about roots and belonging, about the importand of home and landscape and about the very close ties that bind and tear apart twins.
On their twelfth birthday, twins Rathlin and Breac n Doherty witness an accident that kills their p.