An immensely powerful examination of mankind's propensity for both good and evil, inspired by the author's wartime experience as a conscientious objector doing forestry work
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Calum and Neil are the cone-gatherers��wo brothers at work in the forest of a large Scottish estate. But the harmony of their life together is shadowed by the obsessive hatred of Duror,
the gamekeeper. Set during World War II�yet removed from the destruction and bloodshed of the war, the brothers' oblivious happiness becomes increasingly fragile as darker forces close in
around them. Suspenseful, dark, and unforgettable,�this is a towering work of fiction, a masterpiece of modern Scottish literature.
