There was, she says, particular motivation to get it done. “I was born here, and my father’s side have been here for generations,” she says, referring to Colonsay, the Hebridean island where her ancestor, John of the Ocean arrived from Barra in 1715. “It’s demoralising that there’s this place where you’re born and know so well and are in love with, yet it feels like you can’t make a life here for yourself. “I ended up being so scunnered with the housing situation that I left to study law thinking it might help me find a way to fix it.”