A novel of Celtic quantum time that asks us to consider the ways in which we are all born strangers, seaborne foundlings, living between worlds. A parable for our particularly torn times.

Damian Walford Davies

What if you had no choice but to simplify your way of life?

This is what happens to John Finlay, a London engineer who runs away and becomes: the Seaborne. His headlong flight plunges him into a near-death experience. But when he regains consciousness he finds himself in a very different world from the one he left behind.  The Island is somewhere to the west of Scotland, in a time that feels medieval. John travels from disbelief to despair, but finds himself held by people who teach him their Celtic language and the ways of a small community, living sustainably and close to the earth. As John starts to take his place among the Islanders he tries to bring them something from our world. But what he brings splits the community wide open and has him on trial, re-enacting a much deeper, and older, story. The Seaborne: a tale of transformation. The only way out, is through.

The Seaborne, by A.G.Rivett

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