I Am An Island av Tamsin Calidas

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<p><b>THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER</b><br><br><b>''Memoir of the year'' - <i>Vogue</i></b><br><br><b>''A wondrous, sensuous memoir of salt-stung survival . . . clear-eyed and poetic prose'' <i>Sunday Times</i></b><br><br><b>''A fascinating memoir'' - <i>Daily Mail</i></b><br><br>When Tamsin Calidas first arrives on a remote island in the Scottish Hebrides, it feels like coming home. Disenchanted by London, she and her husband left the city and high-flying careers to move the 500 miles north, despite having absolutely no experience of crofting, or of island life. It was idyllic, for a while. But as the months wear on, the children she''d longed for fail to materialise, and her marriage breaks down, Tamsin finds herself in ever-increasing isolation.<br><br>Injured, ill, without money or friend she is pared right back, stripped to becoming simply a raw element of the often harsh landscape. But with that immersion in her surroundings comes the possibility of rebirth and renewal. Tamsin begi