A small Perthshire spa town is the setting for this collection of stories linked by people and place. Ronald Frame’s deceptively gentle writing spins a taut web of desire, betrayal and loss as his characters play out their roles in the intimate and claustrophobic amphitheatre of Carnbeg. From the widow facing her own death on the river to the failed gift shop owner and the seamstress slowly going blind, he exposes a raw and complex emotional world that lies behind a seemingly calm and staid facade, all the time holding up a mirror in which we see stark reflections of our own impulses and drives, desires and anxieties.
Ronald Frame’s Carnbeg stories were first broadcast on Radio 4 to considerable acclaim over a period of three years. He has continued to re-visit it in a number of more recent stories which are included in this collection. He was born in Glasgow and educated at the university there and at Oxford. He has written a number of highly acclaimed novels, including Winter Journey, Penelope’s Hat and Permanent Violet. The Lantern Bearers won the prestigious Saltire Book of the Year in 2000. He lives in Glasgow.
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