The Loud Halo (Common Reader Editions)

A tourist's view of Hebridean Island-life is a cottage in the Highlands and a cow for milk. For Lillian Beckwith, it's storm-force winds, lashing hail and stinging rain. Or evenings of summer calm and molten sunsets. Not forgetting the company of cantankerous cows and election fever which sweeps through the island when one of the candidates brings a loudspeaker van to the island -- known as the loud halo to the islanders...