In the enchanted woods of a late-Scottish summer, assorted couples dance to music that is now traditional, now dewily romantic, now harshly discordant and in an atmosphere suffused with melancholy, love and lust become hard to distinguish.
Allan Massie is a Scottish journalist, sports writer and novelist. Massie is one of Scotland's most prolific and well-known journalists, writing regular columns for The Scotsman, The Sunday Times (Scotland) and the Scottish Daily Mail. He is also the author of nearly 30 books, including 20 novels. He is notable for writing about the distant past.