The Fields

by Martin MacInnes

On a remote Hebridean island, a young boy grows up on his family's croft. His father mends watches while his mother works as a cleaner at a grand holiday house, a manor filled with hidden treasures and dark secrets that will echo across the boy's lifetime.

His story is one layer of a symphonic journey through the deep reaches of time.

From an English family observing a rare comet in 1955 to a woman standing in an Arctic seed vault as climate chaos rages, the lives of three generations are bound by a sublime truth: we do not merely inhabit our landscapes and histories, we are made and unmade by them.

Kindle Edition

Expected publication May 6, 2027

About the author

Martin MacInnes has been published in 13 languages and is the winner of a Manchester Fiction Prize, a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award and a Somerset Maugham Award. His third novel, In Ascension (2023), was longlisted for the Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Kitschies award, and won the Arthur C. Clarke award, Blackwell's Book of the Year, and the Saltire Prize for Fiction. In Ascension is a Times bestseller and has been optioned for film.