The Letters of Ivor Punch

When Fingal McMillan rows out into the Atlantic never to return, his grandson Alexander is left with questions. What really happened to Alexander's mother? Was his grandfather trying to reach The Looming, a rock of local myth? And why have mysterious words appeared on the cliff by the bay? Alexander is not the only local boy whose origins are clouded by mystery - mysteries which stretch back to Victorian times, when a pioneering travel writer alighted on Hebridean shores. But will the island give up its secrets? Or will Ivor Punch - the man who links the past to the present - take them to the grave? - Publishers description.