Abhainn na Croise, the river of the cross, where the otters swim and the Scottish Travellers camped for generations, working on the land, repairing whatever was broken, and welcomed back each year by the areas settled residents. Those days are long gone, but Domhnall Macdonald, raised in a Glasgow tower block, yearns for the old ways and the freedom they represent. When his grandmother falls ill, Domhnall determines to take her back to the Abhainn na Croise one last time - but times have changed too much.Instead of the welcome of old, the returning travellers are met with suspicion, hostility and violence - and Domhnall becomes a hunted man. Set in the timeless Scottish landscape, Lorn Macintyre's latest novel is an intimate portrait of a misunderstood way of life and a fast disappearing part of Scottish culture.
