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‘Highly Engaging’ – Sunday Herald
‘You could easily make a case that Andrew Greig has the greatest range of any living Scottish writer’ – Scotsman
The wager
To poach a salmon, grouse and a deer from three Royal Estates.
The challengers
Three men in a mid-life crisis who should know better.
The wild card
A flirtatious female journalist who won’t take no for an answer.
Striding over the Scottish Highlands with a poet’s eye on the wilderness and a firm grip on the adventure, Andrew Greig re-imagines John Buchan’s classic novel with a little less tweed, a little more sex, and just the right measure of whisky.
‘You could easily make a case that Andrew Greig has the greatest range of any living Scottish writer’ – Scotsman
The wager
To poach a salmon, grouse and a deer from three Royal Estates.
The challengers
Three men in a mid-life crisis who should know better.
The wild card
A flirtatious female journalist who won’t take no for an answer.
Striding over the Scottish Highlands with a poet’s eye on the wilderness and a firm grip on the adventure, Andrew Greig re-imagines John Buchan’s classic novel with a little less tweed, a little more sex, and just the right measure of whisky.
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Reviews
'Highly engaging'
Greig...writes beautifully and the story gallops along
You could easily make a case that Andrew Greig has the greatest range of any living Scottish writer
If you have a desire to luxuriate in the most beautiful use of the English language borne along by the love of one gifted poet for a recognized master of melancholy, then this is the book for you. It most certainly is the book for me
One of the best historical novels of recent years, Greig dusts off the past and presents it with tremendous skill