Knockan by Jim Carruth Zeina Hashem Beck lyric and lucid

lyric and lucid

art which emerges through the work of one’s hands and mind

sustained by its fragile continuities

where the enchanted might intersect effortlessly with the everyday

through her chilling re-telling of Robert Louis Stevenson's Jekyll & Hyde

Knockan by Jim Carruth Zeina Hashem Beck lyric and lucidIn remote Assynt, where the past is recreated from rock and bone, a crofter and her estranged daughter search for some common ground in their annual week together. Rooted in the landscape and history of North West Scotland, this beautifully written and heart breaking novel in verse is an original and powerful exploration of how our lived experience weighs on us, intimately told through the fracturing and repair of a mother and daughter relationship.