![]() ![]() On the advice of his advocate, Andrew Sinclair, Macrae tells his story, aware that this one man’s powers of persuasion stand between him and the noose at Inverness. Then there is Macrae’s own account of his actions an account which is at once remorseless, embittered and moving. He is at once pleasant, talented, hardworking, a ‘queer boy’ and ‘noxious progeny’. Residents of Culduie give very different accounts of Macrae. A young man, Roderick Macrae has been arrested, caught in the act there is no doubt that the blood is on his hands. ![]() The year is 1869 and the small crofting community of Culduie has been torn apart by a brutal murder. ![]() ![]() With any story, there is more than one perspective and the truth may lie somewhere in-between. The evidence of his deeds, however, does not speak of a sound mind. Shortlisted for The Man Booker Prize 2016Īs to the general character of Roderick Macrae, there is no doubt that he was a queer boy, but whether this was by nature or had been brought on by the tribulations which his family suffered, I am not qualified to say. ![]()
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