Book Club: Music in the Dark
Thursday 1 October 2026 18:00 to 19:00Location: |
Kawasaki Room, Green Templeton College |
About the event
Sally Magnusson’s third novel, Music in the Dark (2023), explores the Highland Clearances and their aftermath through the experiences of the women who tried to resist eviction in the township of Greenyards in Strathcarron in 1854. The action takes place over one night in July 1884, in a tenement room-and-kitchen in the town of Rutherglen near Glasgow but roams back over generations, as a displaced, working-class Highland woman bearing old injuries opens her mind to the man who came looking for lodgings.
It will be presented by Ben Piper.
This meeting will be held in the Kawasaki Room.
