THE THIRTY-FIRST HOUSE
In the driest summer on record, a Highland loch drops eleven metres and gives back a village that has been underwater since 1955 — a road with the camber...
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In the driest summer on record, a Highland loch drops eleven metres and gives back a village that has been underwater since 1955 — a road with the camber still on it, a bridge over nothing, thirty-one stone rectangles, and a cast-iron milestone standing upright in the silt with its paint still bright.
Rhona Beattie has nine weeks to record all of it before the rain comes. She also, months ago, compiled the list of names for the bronze memorial the village is about to cast. Her list has thirty names on it.
Then a letter arrives from a woman of ninety-five who says there were thirty-one. Margaret Croy was twenty-three when the Hydro Board sent her into Glen Ardvane with a ruled book and told her to put a price on everything in it. She has never spoken about that year.
She will speak now, to Rhona and to nobody else, on her own terms and only for as long as the water stays down — and what she has to tell is a love story with a ledger in it: a young woman who was very good at her job, a man employed to persuade his own neighbours out of their houses, and a secret between them that neither of them could survive.
Moving between a drowned glen in the last year of its life and a village hall with a deadline it cannot meet, THE THIRTY-FIRST HOUSE is a sweeping, heartbreaking novel about the distance between a record and the life it records — about what it costs to be exact, what it costs to be kind, and how one small carelessness at a kitchen table can outlive everybody involved.
For readers who love a dual timeline, a love that cannot be spoken aloud, and an ending that is earned rather than given. Some books you finish. This is one you will want to hand to somebody. If it stays with you, please leave a review and tell another reader where to find it.
Book details
Details: 317 pages, about 88,628 words, published by ALBERT JOHN, publication date 1 September 2026.
Estimated reading time: about 6 hours.
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