David Thomson won the McVitie's Prize for Scottish Writer of the Year in 1987, and NCR Book Award for non-fiction in 1988.
David Thomson was born in India of Scottish parents in 1914. On returning to England, much of his childhood was spent in the country, in Derbyshire, and at Nairn where his grandparents lived. While still a student at Oxford he took on work as a tutor with an Anglo-Irish family in County Roscommon, where he eventually stayed for almost ten years. Later, he joined the BBC and wrote and produced many distinguished radio programmes, including The Irish Storyteller series and a number of documentaries on animal folklore. He left the BBC in 1970 in order to write full time. He died in 1988.
Readers will be carried away on successive waves of pleasure . . .
these stories have an irresistible holistic beauty
*Seamus Heaney*
A splendid resurrection of a life that has almost vanished
* * Daily Telegraph * *
I know of few books which so ably open a window on the Gaelic scene
today or which so faithfully reflect the mind, vigour and courtesy
of its people . . . Pounds on the imagination like surf on a
reef
* * The Observer * *
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