Knockan by Jim Carruth Zeina Hashem Beck written to be performed at

written to be performed at the launch of Beck's Song Reader

lyric and lucid

Against the frame

through her chilling re-telling of Robert Louis Stevenson's Jekyll & Hyde

Knockan by Jim Carruth Zeina Hashem Beck written to be performed atIn remote Assynt, where the past is recreated from rock and bone, a crofter and her estranged daughter search for some common ground in their annual week together. Rooted in the landscape and history of North West Scotland, this beautifully written and heart breaking novel in verse is an original and powerful exploration of how our lived experience weighs on us, intimately told through the fracturing and repair of a mother and daughter relationship.