In Another Light by Andrew Greig

• Belfast Education and Library Board, Northern Ireland
• Aberdeen Library & Information Services, Scotland

Publisher of Nominated Edition
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 029784878X

In the early nineteen thirties, an ambitious young Scotsman sets out on the long sea voyage to Penang, eager to take up his post running a maternity hospital in the colony, and eager for the new opportunities that will open up for him there. He very quickly makes the acquaintance of two sisters, both very beautiful young women, one looking for a husband, the other married.

In the confines of the ship, when conventional morality is shelved for the duration, the seeds of a scandal, which will rock the close island community of Penang, are sown. Seventy years later, forty-something engineer Edward Mackay, recuperating from illness on the wild isolated island of Orkney, begins to unravel the story of a man he thought he knew: his father, the respectable Doctor Alexander Mackay, now years dead after a long and blameless career. What he discovers astonishes him, and begins to shed light on his own existence.

Andrew Greig is a poet and novelist. He has published six volumes of poetry and four novels, the most recent of which, That Summer, brought him to a wide readership. He was born in Bannockburn in Scotland and educated at the University of Edinburgh. He lives in Orkney and Sheffield with his wife, the writer Leslie Glaister. Among other things, he is known as the unofficial poet laureate of the mountaineering community, and a love of the land characterises much of his work.