John of John

From Douglas Stuart, Booker prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo comes a stunning new novel, John of John. Cal is a young man returning home to his father and grandmother in a small village in the Outer Hebrides. He has graduated and is out of money and his father needs him.

But when he returns he will also be drawn back into a world of suppressed emotion and terrible secrecy that not only destroys his father but looks set to determine the relationship between father and son. For both Cal and John, keeping their sexuality secret threatens both their relationship and their own lives. The world is that of the weavers of the island - isolated, intense and intimate and wild.

Set in the Isle of Harris, John of John is a tender and devastating story of love and religion, of a father and son, art and landscape, and the corrosive effects of living a secret life. It confirms Douglas Stuart as one of Britain’s greatest contemporary novelists.