When Alison Ross loses her son Calum in a car crash, her world turns upside down. In her struggle to cope, she does some strange and uncharacteristic things starting with a one-night stand with her ex-best friend, Neal and sets in motion a chain of events that will lead her on a journey she could never have imagined. If I Touched the Earth is a warm and compelling novel, delicately weaving a powerful story about life’s unexpected moments and the ways in which these events can change our paths forever.
Nothing less than Scotland’s very own Anne Tyler.
Alan Bissett
Cynthia Rogerson’s intelligent and patient novel follows hard on the heels of Sue Peebles equally excellent prizewinning novel The Death of Lomond Friel.
The Scotsman
Handled with wit, tenderness and sureness of language. Original and accomplished.
Anne Donovan
 | Cynthia RogersonCynthia Rogerson’s prize-winning fiction includes If I Touched the Earth (Black & White 2013), a novel which follows a mother during the first year after her son dies. Set in the Scottish Highlands, it also explores the ways in which we are all affected, directly and indirectly, when someone dies unexpectedly. While a romance winds its way throughout the narrative, the themes are essentially bleak – alienation, loneliness and identity. Alan Bissett says of this novel: “Brilliant. Rogerson is Scotland’s very own Anne Tyler.” |
