Rosalind Porter
Nation In Waiting
And the Land Lay Still is enormous in both length (it’s just under 700 pages) and scale. It’s clear that James Robertson has set out to write something in between the definitive Scottish novel and the definitive novel of Scotland – and to achieve this, he unapologetically renders the recent history of his country as his plot.
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