And the Land Lay Still

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Across twentieth century Scotland, And the Land Lay Still moves through a country in the midst of great and rapid change. James Robertson builds a portrait of modern Scotland through the lives of natives and immigrants, journalists and politicians, drop outs and spooks, each trying to find a way through shifting loyalties, private histories, and public upheaval.

The novel follows intertwined stories of family, friendship, struggle and hope, holding the intimate beside the national. Lives cross and separate, shaped by politics, memory, place, and the uneasy question of what a country becomes when the old certainties begin to loosen.

Sweeping in scope yet attentive to individual lives, And the Land Lay Still is a novel about Scotland’s twentieth century, and about the people who carry its changes in their bodies, their homes, and their silences.

Winner of the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award.