There are some books that seem to have more to tell than just the story, and this is certainly one of them. It's set in a remote part of highland Scotland, and there are three stories about the inhabitants of Glen Conach, separated by centuries, but happily running concurrently in the book. The land is known as Glen Conach after a religious man who lived in a cave on the hillside, and had been known to perform miracles. The legends associated with Conach were passed down verbally for many years, but there was also a written account of his life held in the library of the local Laird who lived in the middle of the nineteenth century. At that same time, a young man called Mr Gibb wrote to the Laird to ask if he could come and make a transcript and a translation of the document, which was written in Latin, and he was invited to stay for a summer to complete his work. Jumping up to the present time, the highland scenery is much the same, and the older villagers can s...