Book summary

A novel set in the highlands of Montana, this is the central volume in Ivan Doig's Montana trilogy about Angus McCaskill, who comes to America from Scotland, becomes a sheep farmer, and falls in love with Anna Ramsey. Doig has written: "My own western existence has bordered the lives of the last homestead generation, the settlers who poured into Montana between 1900 and 1918....To explore that haunting past, I invented the McCaskills and the Barclays, families who have in common with my own only their Scottish origins and a hard-won rural life in this country."

Media reviews

"Against [a] magnificently evoked backdrop, Mr. Doig addresses his real subject: love between friends, between the sexes, between the generations..."