Girl on the Ferryboat

Angus Peter Campbell lives in Skye, and has previously published a number of works in Gaelic. In 2001, he was awarded the Bardic Crown for Gaelic Poetry, as well as the Creative Scotland Award. His Gaelic novel An Oidhche Mus do Sheol Sinn (The Night Before We Sailed) was included in The List 100 Best Scottish Books of All Time. As well as being an author, Campbell has also worked in newspapers, radio and film, with a leading role in the Gaelic language feature film, Seachd: The Inaccessible Pinnacle.

exceptionally good novel. It is among the best pieces of narrative literary fiction to have emerged from Scotland in the 21st century, in any language... an extraordinary achievement, by the increasingly excellent and adventurous Luath Press... and by Angus Peter himself... beautifully written... [can] be read simply as a love story... the gorgeous bittersweet tone... - REVIEW ON BOOKSScotland will play host to a literary first later this month with the simultaneous publication of a novel in both English and Gaelic. - SCOTLAND ON SUNDAYAPC says I wrote them both simultaneously in the sense that I would write bits in one language then either do the same again – but differently – in the other language, or write a bit in one language then move on to write the next bit in the other language. - SCOTLAND ON SUNDAYAPC says Like a jigsaw or a zig-zag, one field of language would often then open up a surprising and unexpected gate into the other language. I think that in itself provided a dynamism which was very interesting. - SCOTLAND ON SUNDAYAPC said that his biggest challenge was “making sure that nothing was a mere wooden translation from one language to the other.” - SCOTLAND ON SUNDAYLyrical, digressive and ornate English - SCOTLAND ON SUNDAYCampbell’s writing [is] transcendently beautiful… a delight in any language. SCOTLAND ON SUNDAYUnlikely but memorable love story. - DAILY MAILHis novel ‘The Girl On The Ferryboat’ is one of the best of this millennium in any language. - DEAR SCOTLAND