That Beautiful Atlantic Waltz
by Malachy Tallack
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Pub Date 24 Oct 2024 | Archive Date 24 Oct 2024
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Description
Set in Shetland, That Beautiful Atlantic Waltz is a soulful and moving exploration of the notion of home and belonging, from one of Scotland's trailblazing literary writers
1957. Sonny is working on a whaling ship in the South Atlantic, reckoning with the most vicious storms he has ever seen. It's a brutal way to make a living. When he finally returns to his Shetland home to build a life with his wife and young son, the legacy of his time at sea is felt by all of them.
In present day Shetland, Jack is an old man, living alone in the cottage where he grew up, in the shadow of a hill. And it is here, one evening, that something appears on his doorstep. Something that throws off the rhythm of his solitary existence in the most profound way.
This is a story of unlikely friendship, longing, the power of music and the pull of home. It is about a life revisited - and reimagined.
Advance Praise
‘At once both heart-throbbingly beautiful and deeply contemplative, both deftly sparing and expertly evocative . . . An entrancing, enthralling and enriching read from start to finish – I savoured every moment and morsel of it’
MICHAEL PEDERSEN
Praise for The Valley in the Centre of the World:
‘A moving, authentic novel of the Scottish islands in the twenty-first century’
AMY LIPTROT
‘Life-affirming . . . [Tallack] is a careful and precise writer’
ALLAN MASSIE, Scotsman
‘Tallack’s concern here is with the push and pull of larger forces — love, grief, guilt, need, the idea of home itself. They’re potent themes that could, but rarely do, overshadow characters about which he writes with palpable tenderness . . . A sharp-eyed and evocative painter of place’
Daily Mail
‘Lyrical . . . Wonderfully atmospheric and moving’
Sunday Express
‘A desperately beautiful novel. Tallack writes with such tenderness for his characters and quiet awe for the patch of earth he places them upon’
SARA BAUME
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781838854980 |
| PRICE | £16.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 240 |
