Twenty-four hours after meeting and falling for archaeologist and Pictish expert Michael Hurt, Jess Kavanagh suffers a horrific accident that leaves her with aphasia and amnesia. No words. No memory of love. Michael travels south, unknowing. Will their relationship survive this test? Should it survive? Will Michael find Jess again?
Love, loss and language are the themes of Anne MacLeod's The Blue Moon Book. The story unfolds a cappella in a deft medley of voices and cameos . - SCOTTISH REVIEW OF BOOKS
ANNE MACLEOD is known throughout Scotland for her poetry and fiction. Her short stories have been widely anthologised and read on radio; her novel The Dark Ship (11/9) is a Scottish best seller; Standing by Thistles (Scottish Cultural Press, 1997) her first poetry collection was shortlisted for a Saltire Literary award; Just the Caravaggio appeared from Poetry Salzburg in 1999, and was reprinted in 2001. Anne is one of the more recent names in the long and well-established caravan of doctor/writers. A dermatologist, working in the Highlands, she has four children and lives on the Black Isle.