I Am An Island: The Sunday Times bestselling memoir of one woman’s search for belonging Mark Boyle explores the hard-won

Mark Boyle explores the hard-won joys of building a home with his bare hands

our winters and summers are the ebb and flow of life

looks to our ancestors

like dragonflies

Rooted in Greek

I Am An Island: The Sunday Times bestselling memoir of one woman’s search for belonging Mark Boyle explores the hard-won'Memoir of the year' Vogue 'A wondrous, sensuous memoir of salt stung survival . . . clear eyed and poetic prose' Sunday Times 'A fascinating memoir' Daily Mail 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