This is a short, enigmatic and beautifully packaged novel, in which an elderly, eminent literature professor arrives at a remote Orkney island, on his honeymoon with his ethereal, much younger wife, a former star pupil. He knows very little about this mysterious woman, but is physically and emotionally obsessed with her. She in turn is obsessed with the sea. They spend the nights drinking whisky, and telling each other stories, and she spends the days watching the wild sea. He watches her from the safety of their cottage, and wonders. The writing is beautiful, the story mythical, the ending unsettling.