Set in Scotland, this is a modern story of the love of two very different men for local artist and potter Anna, creator of the ‘floating stones’ of the title. Oxford geologist Stephen Rhodes and his students Kat and Max set up temporary homes in the rugged beauty of Sutherland for a summer of scientific fieldwork. As a result they are brought into intimate contact with both the landscape and its inhabitants. Donnie, a local shepherd, Kat, Anna and Stephen become involved in a four-sided relationship whose complexity only gradually becomes clear. For Stephen, the summer becomes the story of his conflicting desires: on the one hand for his wife and growing sons, who offer stability, a safe home and a rational career, and on the other hand for his new-found lover and the entirely different life that she represents.
ISBN 1-84045-105-X |
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