The Clush

Romantic. Bawdy. Emotionally stirring. And outrageously funny. The Clush is a highly inventive and engaging story of people colliding, bouncing and whirling madly around each other as they search for love, forgiveness and redemption in a small, nearly forgotten Scottish Highlands town that some might mistake for the location of an American actress--Glen Close. Rich in the Scottish literary traditions of dark humor and sharp-edged truths, The Clush introduces you to a quirky assortment of folk: A successful, if terribly short, American mystery writer who marginally prefers his own company because of past hurt and disappointments. An abusive farmer ingloriously killed by a dairy cow named Big Truddy. An attractive real estate agent married to a cheating amateur rock 'n roll guitarist. An embittered widow who feels her only purpose in life is to sip sherry and wait for Death to knock on her ramshackle door. A son reluctantly returning to a home he'd much rather forget about. A young librarian with purple hair and a dark secret working in a WW II bomb warehouse-turned-library who loves Aretha Franklin and tequila. And a restaurant owner who believes the Next Big Thing in Scotland is curried haggis.

Vivid. Dynamic. Brilliantly written. Daring with just a touch of the controversial. The Clush is exactly the read you might not have known you were waiting for!