Juvenilia

An Orkney tale

Back in the spring of 2007, I went to Orkney for the first time. I was living then in the north-west Highlands, and was visiting to meet some writers I was going to publish. (From 2007 to 2014, along with my husband David, I ran a small literary publishing house.) It wasn’t a good time; David, who I’d known for just over a year, who I was planning to ma…