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A luminious observation of fateful love written by Neil M Gunn, first published in 1928.

4 Extra Debut. A luminious observation of fateful love written by Neil M Gunn, first published in 1928. Read by Claire Knight.

By Neil M. Gunn, first published in 1928.


Read by Claire Knight.


A newly qualified school-mistress, just arrived in the Highland town of Inverness, chances upon the love of her life in the reading room of the local library. 


First in a series of three short stories by one of Scotland's finest writers, Neil M. Gunn (best known for his 1941 novel, The Silver Darlings). Gunn was born in 1891, in the coastal village of Dunbeath, in Caithness, and wrote prolifically over a period that spanned the recession of the 1920s through to the aftermath of the second world war. He died in 1973.


The stories in this series are taken from Half-Light, a new collection of Gunn's short fiction compiled by his nephew Dairmid Gunn and published by Caithness-based Whittles Publishing.


Abridged and produced by Kirsteen Cameron.

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