Featherstone

Paperback original. 8vo. Pp. [x], 256. Pictorial wraps in a repeat pattern dustwrapper.

Toning to textblock edges, else Fine.

Author's third novel. A 2003 New York Times Notable Book. The mysterious disappearance from an isolated Scottish town of a spirited young woman, her absence still reverberating in the lives of its inhabitants years down the line. A professor of creative writing at the University of Dundee, Gunn won the Book of the Year Award in the 2013 New Zealand Post Book Awards. Her short story "Rain" was the basis of the 2001 film of the same name, directed by Christine Jeffs. "[A] richly layered and rewarding novel." –Scotland on Sunday