Silver Threads

Tom Ralston's first full-length novel weaves a spellbinding tale of life in Scotland's fishing communities, seen through the eyes of one man. Set against the background of the herring fishing industry on the west coast of Scotland, it is both a love story and a tragedy; above all it is a magnificent and authentic account of ring-net fishing as it was in its latter days. It is a story of passion, of love won and lost, and of lives sundered by an ancient mistrust that still lives.