SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK • AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“This excavation of family, violence and shame is woven through with beautiful imagistic detail, and—unexpectedly—shades of hope. We loved the rich, textural detail of the story.”—The Booker Prize 2026 judges

“Douglas Stuart brilliantly weaved a layered, compelling and yet so intimate a story of identity, what it means to belong, and the courage to claim your own truth.”—Oprah Winfrey

“One of 2026's literary triumphs.”—Boston Globe

From the Booker Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo comes a vivid, moving novel following a young man returning to his Hebridean island home, a portrait of a father’s expectations and a son’s desires