Children of Disobedience by A. Findlay Johnson (1989)
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Overview: The sea is Alan Cameron’s only passion. Twenty-three, effortlessly attractive, wary of commitment, he escapes with relief from doting mother and girlfriend for a short bout of woodwork teaching on a remote Hebridean island.
The voyage to Boreray, however, turns out to be less an escape, more a plunge into a brave old world. A. Findlay Johnson paints an extraordinary picture of crofting life: a life where pastoral idyll contrasts with hardship, even cruelty; where ties of community are strong, while individual freedom is ruthlessly denied; where tradition is steadfast, but assailed by the uncertain influences of mainland culture.
Alan the pacifist and vegetarian shudders at farming practices. Alan the outsider is courteously made welcome. But Alan the free Spirit is captured unexpectedly and completely by an overwhelming love; a love which brings a vision of innocence, but at the cost of unimagined danger and violence. And so he must make another voyage — of the soul as well as body — of utter despair, utter faith.
Children of Disobedience is a heart-catching love story, an evocation of an all but vanished way of life, a portrait of a beautiful wild place and a serious work of literature. It is a magnificent first novel from a shining new talent; a true storyteller who understands the human heart and the human comedy.
Genre: Fiction > Romance Gay coming-of-age, Hebrides island life
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Review from Publishers Weekly:
A disquieting love story is at the center of this compelling first novel set in the uncompromising society of the Hebrides. Boreray Island proves a refuge of sorts for feckless, 23-year-old Alan Cameron, who is effortlessly attractive to both men and women. In sharp contrast to the well-cushioned London existence he leaves behind is the crofters’ hard-won existence. Welcomed into a large, struggling island family, Cameron becomes more than an observer of pastoral life. He works obsessively on rehabilitating his boat, follows vegetarian and pacifist principles in defiance of the sheepherding community and, with grave consequences, begins a sexual liaison with Donnie, an adolescent boy of surpassing beauty considered "daft" by the family. Trying to avert what eventually comes to pass, Cameron has a heated, angry affair with a tempestuous music teacher affianced to Donnie’s cruel older brother. Though the finale leaves the reader much to ponder, the wild, untamed beauty of the locale and the crofters’ fast-vanishing way of life are used to effect by Scottish writer Johnson, a gifted storyteller."Children of Disobedience" by A. Findlay Johnson is another scanned book converted to retail quality ebook using ABBYYFineReader and Sigil.
