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Grunnit Spring, or The Rhynie Station
Serious and humorous Doric fiction wi historical, political themes.
There are but Seven Stories which people ever tell, and one is of The Return. This novel describes a man coming back, after many years, to his native town for the funeral of an old friend. In the course of his journey, mediating on that shared past in its emotional and political aspects, as well as on his own family history, he strives to come to terms with the changes wrought by the passing of time. Like all travelers, he finds that return is not possible as the place departed from no longer exists.
There are but Seven Stories which people ever tell, and one is of The Return. This novel describes a man coming back, after many years, to his native town for the funeral of an old friend. In the course of his journey, mediating on that shared past in its emotional and political aspects, as well as on his own family history, he strives to come to terms with the changes wrought by the passing of time. Like all travelers, he finds that return is not possible as the place departed from no longer exists.
127 pages, Paperback
First published June 11, 2022
About the author
Ian R. Mitchell
27 books3 followersIan R Mitchell hails from Aberdeen but has lived in Glasgow most of his life. For the past 20 years he has been writing full time and his works range widely over mountaineering, travel, fiction and history. He has won both the Outdoor Writers' Award for Excellence and the Boardman-Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature.
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