The Ratscape Chronicles

'I wasn't going to be intimidated by a couple of baby kitlings!...Twisting my hand around, I struck like a snake and grabbed! I wish I hadn't. Oh, I wish I hadn't! My hand instantly became an agonised thing of white, blistering fire.' A social maverick takes to the rural paradise of Shetland, a rocky oasis set in the raging waters of the Atlantic, and hilarity ensues. Charismatic Jim Clarke and his beloved little rosebud escape an urban hell and settle on a remote croft. Cue for...
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'I wasn't going to be intimidated by a couple of baby kitlings!...Twisting my hand around, I struck like a snake and grabbed! I wish I hadn't. Oh, I wish I hadn't! My hand instantly became an agonised thing of white, blistering fire.' A social maverick takes to the rural paradise of Shetland, a rocky oasis set in the raging waters of the Atlantic, and hilarity ensues. Charismatic Jim Clarke and his beloved little rosebud escape an urban hell and settle on a remote croft. Cue for enchanting landscapes, truly amazing people and a cast of animals with which no actor wanting to stay in work should perform!Copiously illustrated with the author's own pictures and illuminating poetry (and some by his fourth wife as well) set within prose that will take your breath away with laughter, this comic tragedy of a doomed attempt to escape the rat-race is a magical experience. Its bitter and poetic beginning gives way to a land of rolling hills and wild winds where men are men and women are, well, as big as the men!