The Kilmuir Eviction

About this book

In the Scottish Highlands of 1814, the onset of the Sutherland Clearances brings systemic destruction to the crofting township of Kilmuir. For generations, families like the MacLeods have worked the rocky soil, but an absentee English landowner's decree orders them replaced by profitable sheep walks. As spring eviction notices arrive, the community fractures. Fifty-four-year-old Angus MacLeod clings to his ancestral plot, while his fiery son Lachlan preaches rebellion, and his pragmatic daughter Elspeth quietly begins organizing a way out. Enforcing the cruel mandate is local factor Duncan Ross, a man torn between his own dismantled heritage and providing for his pregnant wife, while Reverend Thomas Muir watches his congregation's suffering shatter his rigid theology. Spanning a single devastating season from the illegal sowing of a ghost crop to the brutal burning of their homes, the surviving villagers must undertake a harrowing overland journey to the port of Thurso. Amidst violence, sacrifice, and the erasure of a way of life, the intertwined fates of this ensemble reveal the enduring struggle to protect family and salvage dignity in the face of irreversible social change.

Book details

Genres:

Historical Fiction, Historical Drama, Literary Fiction

Language:

en

Published:

2026-05-06

Content rating:

PG-13