DAYS HERE SO DARK chronicles the last days of a small Hebridean community.
Nineteen sturdy souls isolated on a barren and windswept island, without any viable economic future but with strong allegiances to each other, forged through intermarriage and incest, and a sense of embattled independence.
A prologue takes us back a thousand years when Viking invaders brought bloody murder to the island; it is the stories of the past, embellished into myths, that strengthens the habitants resolve to stay despite Government pressure to leave.