A man washes up on the shore of a remote Scottish island, his ship having wrecked nearby. He is John Ferguson, a minister of the Free Church, sent to clear the island of its sole remaining inhabitant. While John lays unconscious, Ivar, the man he is supposed to evict, tends to him with care and curiosity, but also steals the one existing photo of John’s wife and begins to obsess lasciviously over it. It is a tense beginning; the two men seem destined to clash in what I half suspected was a book initially commissioned as a Darkland Tale.
I have this lined up as my next read. Have you read her West? Loved that!