What Ends

By: Andrew Ladd

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Hardcover | 28 December 2020 | Edition Number 1

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In 1980 the McCloud family welcomes Trevor, their third child and the last to be born on Eilean Fior, a small island off the west coast of Scotland. Life there, on the eve of Trevor's birth, is grim: the population, once in the hundreds, now hovers around thirty; his parents stubbornly maintain the family business, a guesthouse, despite their increasing trouble turning a profit; and a plague of rats threatens to wipe out the island's last remaining hopes. Against this backdrop, and through a series of interlocking narratives spanning from Trevor's birth to the present day, What Ends follows each of the McClouds as they navigate their ever-more fragile lives.

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Running parallel to our overcrowded, technologically saturated present is a yearning for a peace and remoteness which can only be resolved through voluntary removal from society. Many self-sufficient Scottish island communities flourish in this way and have done for several hundred years but their survival cannot be guaranteed. Andrew Ladd s impressive first novel acknowledges this by referencing the well-documented decline of St Kilda, whose last inhabitants left in 1930. Its ghostly presence hovers over his actual location: a small, fictitious Hebridean island, and the 20-year saga of one of its few remaining families, the McClouds. It is October 1980 on Eilean For and a baby is born. Despite the date, the setting could be the Fifties: Trevor McCloud is delivered at home with an amateur midwife in attendance while his father and the male doctor share a dram of whisky in the parlour. Trevor will be the last child born on the island. Catherine Taylor, The Telegraph"

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