WALL OF DAYS – ALASTAIR BRUCE

This is a stunning novel of guilt, loss, and remembering. In a world all but drowned, a man named Bran has lived on an island for ten years after being exiled by those he once led. He marks the days on the wall of his cave as they pass. When a memory ignites in him a longing to return, he persuades himself to go back, even if it means execution.

His reception is so unexpected and mystifying that he cannot tell what is real and what is imagined. Only the friendship of a child anchors him as he retraces the terrible deeds for which he is answerable, and as he tries to reach back over his greatest betrayal to the one he loved. “Wall of Days” is a profoundly moving novel about guilt, loss, and remembering.