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Shortlisted for the Highland Book Prize
Shetland: a place of sheep and soil, of harsh weather, close ties, and an age-old way of life. A place where David has lived all his life, like his father and grandfather before him. A place that Alice has fled to after the death of her husband. A place where Sandy, a newcomer but already a crofter, may have finally found a home. But times do change, and the valley they all call home must change with them, or be forgotten.
The debut novel from one of our most exciting new literary voices, The Valley at the Centre of the World is a story about community and isolation, about what is passed down, and what is lost between the cracks.
“What I've been waiting for: a moving, authentic novel of the Scottish islands in the twenty-first century” AMY LIPTROT, bestselling author of The Outrun
“Utterly beguiling” Sunday Times
“Life-affirming . . . [Tallack] is a careful and precise writer . . . Given that Mackay Brown and Crichton Smith were two of the best Scottish writers of fiction in the second half of the twentieth century, a first novel that sits comfortably alongside their work is a considerable achievement” Scotsman
“Beautiful writing, totally believable characters and a really evocative sense of place. A triumph” NICOLA STURGEON, First Minister of Scotland
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