Mull & Iona

Good Reads

From Shirley

‘ Salt Path’- Raynor Winn
Well written autobiography written with sensitivity and humour that shows the resilience of folk who have lost everything but do not give up on life but instead take on the South West Coast Path
from Somerset to Dorset!
I agree; ‘Salt Path’ - well worth a read, an incredible story! A friend lent it to me and I then bought the follow up - 'The Wild Silence’ which describes the path they took next! Norma.

‘ Where the Crawdads Sing’ Delia Owens
Not I book that I would have picked up but a friend gave it to me and I got sucked in.
A murder mystery and atale of young Kya ‘ the Swamp Girl ‘ surviving alone in the the swamps of North Carolina. There are mixed timelines and threads and insight into the natural world through
Kya’s eyes.

‘The Island of Missing Trees’ Elif Sharaf
Beautifully written tale of two young lovers in Cyrprus, one Greek one Turkish. The story jumps from the troubles of 1970’s to the early 2010’s . A Fig tree is also a narrator.

From Ron,

‘Ocean Crossing Wayfarer’ Frank Dye

Frank’s voyages in a 16ft Wayfarer from Kinlochbervie to Iceland 1963, and Norway 1964.
Just imagine being on a large ocean liner in a force 9 gale, with 30ft. waves ,then imagine being in a 16ft open boat in the same conditions. They must have been mad, but having done a bit of open sea stuff in a Wayfarer I know a bit about how they felt and also the exultation of actually arriving at your landfall, wet but “buzzing.”