Julia Stuart is a bestselling novelist and an award-winning journalist. She grew up in the West Midlands, and has lived in France, Spain and, most recently, Bahrain. Her previous novels include The Matchmaker of Perigord and Balthazar Jones and the Tower of London Zoo, which was published in 2010 to great acclaim, and went on to be a New York Times bestseller.
The Last Pearl Fisher of Scotland is a gently comic, gently tragic novel, full of lyricism, humanity and the pearl that is love. Read it at once -- A. L. Kennedy