Why a Booktrail?
1999: A man wakes to find he’s killed the only woman he ever loved.
Amnesia
What you need to know before your trail
Alastair Cunningham wakes up in hospital with almost total amnesia. But he knows that something terrible happened in his past, something that haunts him still. A young family friend, Clémence, is called in to help rekindle his memory. Retreating with Alastair to his remote cottage by a Scottish loch, Clémence finds a peculiar manuscript hidden away from prying eyes. Reading the prologue, she discovers a murder by someone very much like a young Alastair. The victim? Clémence’s grandmother, Sophie. Could this kindly old man truly be a killer? Clémence becomes determined to find out what happened all those years ago, even if she must risk everything to do so…
Locations
Reset- Scotland - Scottish Highlands
- A: Wyvis - Little Wyvis
- B: Wyvis - Ben Wyvis
- C: Loch Glass
- D: St Andrews
- E: Inverness - Raigmore Hospital
Travel Guide
Scottish Highlands – Ben Wyvis
Ben Wyvis is a vast and sprawling mountain whose isolated position makes it the dominating feature of a wide area of the Highlands.
This is the main stetting of the novel and Loch Glass is where the cottage is located.
They were on the north side of the Moray Firth now,on the Black Use, the peninsula of rich farmland between the Moray and the Cromarty firths; low rolling hills, fields of green and brown, scattered whitewashed buildings with grey roofs”
Loch Glass
“They emerged from the woods and a long curved lock appeared in front of them, a deep royal blue. Loch Glass. On the far side of the loch was a wall of almost vertical rock. Above them rose the massive dome of Ben Wyvis,a pure white hump against the pale-blue sky.”
Booktrail Boarding Pass: Amnesia
Destination: Scottish Highlands, Wyvis Author/Guide: Michael Ridpath Departure Time: 1999
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