Old Bastards
Stevie Duffy
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Author: Michael Pedersen
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Muckle Flugga follows two young boys living on a remote Shetland island where isolation, imagination and a looming lighthouse shape their days. As tensions rise and reality presses in, their friendship is tested. For readers of literary fiction drawn to childhood, place and the edge between innocence and unease.
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Michael Pedersen’s Muckle Flugga carries us to a remote Shetland lighthouse where Ouse lives beneath the shadow of his grieving, volatile father. Their isolated world shifts when Firth arrives from…
Michael Pedersen’s Muckle Flugga carries us to a remote Shetland lighthouse where Ouse lives beneath the shadow of his grieving, volatile father. Their isolated world shifts when Firth arrives from Edinburgh, intending to paint a gannet promised to his grandfather before ending his own life.
I loved how these two lost young men recognise something in one another. Firth sees Ouse’s artistic talent and imagines a life for him beyond the island, while Ouse offers Firth the genuine warmth and wonder his life has been missing. Between them stands The Father, frightening and cruel at times, yet painfully shaped by grief he cannot express.
Wild, funny and overflowing with invention, this is a beautiful novel about friendship, masculinity and choosing to live differently from those who raised us. The island feels completely alive, but the tenderness between its damaged characters stayed with me most.
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On the rugged isle of Muckle Flugga, life is shaped by weather and rock, and by the narrow company it allows. The elements run riot, and even the stones that hold the place together seem to shift under their influence. The only permanent inhabitants are the lighthouse keeper, known as The Father, and his otherworldly son, Ouse, along with the occasional lodger taken in to keep the wolf from the door.
When Firth arrives from Edinburgh, a chaotic writer, the fragile balance begins to change. His presence tests the bonds of family and tradition, and brings a new kind of pressure into a world built on routine and necessity. A tug of war grows between Firth and The Father for Ouse’s affections, and for the shape of the life he might have.
As old and new ways collide and decisions loom, the island becomes a place where futures can tip, and where the tides may leave very little standing.
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