Orkney - Tapa dura

Praise for the U.K. edition of "Orkney"
"Sackville's second novel is poetic, dreamlike and beautifully written." --"The Times"
"Lyrical and compelling ... readers will be gripped from start to finish ... "Orkney" is entirely original. Sackville's beautiful and poignant novel reminds us of the real nature of tradition, which is not only to insist on retelling old stories, but also to remake them in our own image, for our own time ... In "Orkney" myth slips free from the dust and politesse of the library, and assumes a vivid, dangerous and unparaphraseable existence." --"Times Literary Supplement"
""Orkney" is a short, strange novel about a couple on their honeymoon. He is an ageing English professor on sabbatical. She is his star pupil ... What begins as a familiar, almost fairytale-like narrative ends as something more fragmented, unsettling, and odd ... Providing a brooding, bruised, ever-changing backdrop to all this is Orkney, the book's most compelling character of all. In a tribute to Virginia Woolf's experimental masterpiece, "The Waves," the sea in "Orkney" functions as a kind of rhythmic talisman, its ebb and flow mirrored in the actions, ideas, and themes of the book. More than anything, Sackville's "Orkney" is a breathtaking place in the most literal of senses.' --"Scotsman"
"A haunting novel set on a beautifully described remote island in Orkney ... It's like a folk ballad, full of otherworldly emotion and strange impulses." --"Marie Claire"
"A truly remarkable feat of writing ... it sets Amy Sackville up as one of the UK's most exciting new writers ... she is a genius with her turn of ph