Another Time, Another Place

My second Jessie Kesson, almost as beautiful as the first. Once again set in a farming community in the northeast of Scotland, Another Time, Another Place examines how that community is forced to change to accommodate three Italian prisoners of war who have been billeted in farm cottages there. The story is told through the eyes of an unnamed female narrator who struggles with the confines of her small community and its rules and boundaries, and imagines casting off the expectations placed on her. As in Glitter of Mica, Kesson's writing is dreamy, almost stream-of-consciousness, fragmented into vignettes that gradually reveal a plot. This is slow, sublime reading.