These sixteen stories are largely set in rural Ireland. Critic Robert Macfarlane
observes that each story explores brittle people, fragile emotional states, the cold corners of the human psyche.
McFarlane, Robert. “The Terra Incognita of adultery”. Times Literary Supplement, Vol.
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, p. 24.
The collection begins with the...
Publishing
Nan Shepherd
This volume was reprinted in 2014 with a foreword by Robert Macfarlane
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Literary responses
Nan Shepherd
Novelist Ali Smith
wrote that this work was an enlightened fusion of philosophy and reportage on the forms and force of life everywhere in the beloved landscape.
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Robert Macfarlane
called it one of the most...
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Texts
Macfarlane, Robert, and Nan Shepherd. “Foreword”. In the Cairngorms, Galileo Books, 2014, p. xi - xvi.
Macfarlane, Robert. “The Nominated Boy”. London Review of Books, pp. 30-2.