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''Action-packed and panoramic.'' Observer
''Magnificent . . . there won''t be a finer piece of Scottish fiction published this year.'' Big Issue
''A galloping and impressively wide-ranging read.'' Herald (Scotland)
''Gripping.'' Times Literary Supplement

1956, the Scottish Highlands: Aaron and Robbie, a schoolmaster's son and a farmer's boy, are fast friends with a shared passion for diving, but very divergent ideas of what they will do with their lives.

Meanwhile, Mark and Ally, bright pupils at Edinburgh's grandest private school, are aspiring to make change in the world one through high finance, the other on the political stage.

And Joseph, heir to an Aberdeen trawler-fishing dynasty, is brooding over whether his true ambitions are set higher than his father's succession plan.

For each of them, the discovery of oil under the North Sea will make their dreams achievable. But behind the

The Black Eden

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      Publisher Faber & Faber
      Published 6 July 2023
      ISBN-13 9780571346585
      978-0571346585
      ISBN-10 0571346588
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      Historical Fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ''Action-packed and panoramic.'' Observer
      ''Magnificent . . . there won''t be a finer piece of Scottish fiction published this year.'' Big Issue
      ''A galloping and impressively wide-ranging read.'' Herald (Scotland)
      ''Gripping.'' Times Literary Supplement

      1956, the Scottish Highlands: Aaron and Robbie, a schoolmaster's son and a farmer's boy, are fast friends with a shared passion for diving, but very divergent ideas of what they will do with their lives.

      Meanwhile, Mark and Ally, bright pupils at Edinburgh's grandest private school, are aspiring to make change in the world one through high finance, the other on the political stage.

      And Joseph, heir to an Aberdeen trawler-fishing dynasty, is brooding over whether his true ambitions are set higher than his father's succession plan.

      For each of them, the discovery of oil under the North Sea will make their dreams achievable. But behind the

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