The Searching Glance

Offers a collection of short stories. This title features characters like a hill walker, and a Glasgow party-goer. It allows the reader a 'searching glance' at characters' lives.

"The Searching Glance" is the long-awaited second collection from one of Scotland's leading short story writers. The worlds inhabited by the characters in these stories are diverse - a hill walker is unknowingly watched over as he lies dying on a Highland hill; a Glasgow party-goer searches years later for a woman who may have mistaken him for a monster; a mysterious prize is sought in the perpetual daylight of midsummer Orkney. Whether it is in a suburban garden or on the stark skyline of a Borders hill, the landscape and seasonal extremes provoke and unsettle. Linda Cracknell's stories are multi-layered and brooding with longing and loss, allowing the reader a 'searching glance' at characters' lives. With touches of the surreal and hard strokes of reality, these stories will linger in the mind.

The Smell of Growth Over the Garden Wall A Sense of Belonging Staying in Lane Angel Face Glitter Beneath the Coat Pile And the Sky was Full of Crows The Match Kiss of Life The Weight of the Earth and the Lightness of the Human Heart
Orange Twine Le Grand Jete
Reclaimed Land Night's High Noon The Searching Glance Acknowledgements