A sweeping, atmospheric novel of family drama and long-hidden secrets, set in the beautiful Scottish countryside, from the bestselling author of The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle.
'Evocatively drawn' Sunday Times
'A deeply satisfying work of pure imagination' Damian Barr, author of You Will Be Safe Here
'Beautiful and atmospheric' Alistair Moffat, author of The Hidden Ways
'A very good story . . . rich and pleasing' Allan Massie, The Scotsman
'Beautifully written . . . A haunting tale which combines Rebecca and Room At The Top with Fame' Daily Mail
'One to savour' Sunday Express
'An epic masterpiece' Philippa Perry
Scotland, 1950s
Walter MacMillan is bewitched by the clever, glamorous Jean Thompson and can't believe his luck when she agrees to marry him. Neither can she, for Walter represents a steady and loving man who can perhaps quiet the demons inside her. Yet their home on remote Loch Doon soon becomes a prison for Jean and neither a young family, nor Walter's care, can seem to save her.
Many years later, Walter is with his adult children and adored grandchildren on the shores of Loch Doon where the family has been holidaying for two generations. But the shadows of the past stretch over them and will turn all their lives upside down on one fateful weekend.
The House by the Loch is the story of a family in all its loving complexity, and the way it can, and must, remake itself endlessly in order to make peace with the past.
'Powerful and compelling' Sue Lawrence, author of The Night He Left
'Her understanding of family - its mysteries, losses and secrets - is masterful' Julie Myerson
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Like Wark's bestselling 2014 debut, The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle, this novel's heart lies in the evocatively drawn landscape of southwest Scotland . . . strong on place, dialogue and believable characters (Sunday Times)
Beautifully written . . . A haunting tale which combines Rebecca and Room At The Top with Fame. Not something you can say about many books. (Daily Mail)
Slow burning and richly descriptive, this is one to savour (Sunday Express)
Wark's second novel brings to life Galloway - one of the most beautiful and least well-known parts of Scotland, even to many Scots. This sparsely populated but spare and beautiful landscape anchors three generations of one family struggling to come to terms with a dark secret. As with her debut, The House by the Loch draws on real historical incident and some of her own personal history while also being a deeply satisfying work of pure imagination, however real Jean and Walter and their families feel. A multi-generational story that is at once sweeping and intimate. (Damian Barr, author of You Will Be Safe Here)
It is a very good story. It holds you. You are eager to know how it will unfold . . . There is much to delight. There is warmth and understanding. It's a very Scottish novel, not only in its setting but in its suggestion of the duality of human nature . . . One test of a novel is whether you almost immediately want to read it again. A second is whether you find still more in it at this second reading. I would guess that for many The House by the Loch will pass both tests, colours flying. (Allan Massie, The Scotsman)
How can a book be sad and yet so hopeful and uplifting? Kirsty Wark has written an epic masterpiece (great sense of place and architecture too) (Philippa Perry)
Kirsty Wark has woven a brilliant tapestry, pulling together the threads of three generations and setting their lives against the background of one of the most beautiful and atmospheric places in Britain. Many good novelists write well about the inner lives of their characters and some can make the landscape come alive, but very few can do both as well as Kirsty. I loved The House by the Loch and couldn't wait to turn each page. (Alistair Moffat, author of The Hidden Ways)
It took me back to the books I adored when I was young - the sheer pleasure of immersing yourself in a single family, past and present, their lives in thrall to the sweep and power of the landscape. You need curiosity and generosity to write like this and Wark has so much of both. Her understanding of family - its mysteries, losses and secrets, and especially the fraught tenderness between mothers and daughters - is masterful. (Julie Myerson, author of SOMETHING MIGHT HAPPEN)
I've been enthralled by the wonderful and atmospheric world Kirsty Wark has created - really powerful and compelling. (Sue Lawrence, author of The Night He Left)
Utterly compelling (The Herald)
A new novel set in the beautiful Scottish countryside, of family drama and secrets refusing to lie buried in the past, from the bestselling author of The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle.
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