Rose Nicolson Part 2: A student sets sail for university and St Andrew s
In the second of five installments from Andrew Greig’s new historical novel Rose Nicolson, William Fowler of Anchor Close departs Edinburgh.
Monday, 26th July 2021, 4:55 am
Andrew Greig s book, In Another Light wins the 2004 Saltire Society/Faculty of Advocates Scottish Book of the Year
Chapter 1: A Student Departs
I hear and feel it yet under my scrieving hand, the scrape and shudder of our door as I forced it open into the Embra dawn. I stood a long minute neither fully in nor fully out – a lifelong position with me, I suppose. The wind through the Castle Gait rugged at my cloak. It would be a rough passage.