Anne MacLeod
Anne MacLeod studied medicine in Aberdeen and now works as a dermatologist. Her poetry and fiction have been widely published and her first novel The Dark Ship (11:9) was nominated for the Saltire and IMPAC awards. Anne now lives on the Black Isle.
‘Half the intrigue lies in wacthing MacLeod steer her plot as she ties up the narratvie’s clever strands’
Tom Adair, The Scotsman
‘A striking first novel…an ambitious work… excellent at describing the jealousies and bigotry of a small, insular community.’
Sunday Express
‘Avoids all the traps of sentiment and pathos to produce a big and exhilarating story - a fine, mature and moving book ’
Herald
‘Feminine literature that delves deep and won’t lie down’
The Lancet
Books by Anne MacLeod
The Blue Moon Book
Love can leave you breathless, lost for words. Jess Kavanagh knows. Doesn’t know. Twenty four hours after meeting and falling for archaeologist and Pictish expert Michael Hurt she suffers a horrific accident that leaves her with aphasia and amnesia. No words. No memory of love.
Michael travels south, unknowing. It is her estranged partner sports journalist Dan MacKie who is at the bedside when Jess finally regains consciousness- a Dan forced to review their shared past, disconcerted by Jess’s fear of him, by her loss of memory, loss of words.
Will their relationship survive this test? Should it survive? Will Michael find Jess again? In this absorbing contemporary novel, Anne MacLeod interweaves themes of language, love and loss in patterns as intricate, as haunting as the Pictish Stones.
Extent: 274pp
Publication : September 2004
UK, Commonwealth & Translation rights : Luath Press