Cartographer Maggie Thame has left her modern, urbane life in Oxford and retreated to a remote village at Scotland’s most northern and storm-battered edge. It is clear she is running from something, hoping to forget and be forgotten. But to the villagers, the question remains, what is she hiding from?

“No one lived between her and the sea.”

Linda Cracknell “Call of the Undertow”. First published in 2013. This edition was published by Best Foot Books in 2018. Donated to the library by Linda Cracknell ❤️

Photos by Anna Iltnere / Sea Library