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Mayflies

September 22, 2020September 25, 2020 ~ Angus MacKinnon ~ Leave a comment

The capacity to trigger unsettling emotions is part of the dangerous beauty of books and grief can resurface as smoothly and silently as a seal.

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Angus MacKinnon

Angus MacKinnon

Journalist and father of three boys currently living on the Isle of Islay after posts in London, Paris, Brussels, Hong Kong and Rome.

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