This week we’re joined by Paul Dalgarno reading from his thoughtful, existential novel, A Country of Eternal Light.Margaret Bryce has been having a hard time since dying in 2014. In a liminal place, we join Margaret as she revisits her life, from her Aberdeen prefab childhood to the birth of her twin girls, through Thatcher’s Britain, the Piper Alpha oil rig disaster, Australia’s Black Summer bushfires, the death of Princess Diana and the COVID pandemic. But as Margaret struggles to remember her past, there is something she’s also fighting to forget...An emotional journey, A Country of Eternal Light by Paul Dalgarno is published by Polygon (an imprint of <a href="www.birlinn.co.uk">Birlinn Ltd</a>) and available now. We recommend buying a copy from your local indie bookshop or you can support the Literary Salon's work by visiting <a href="https://uk.bookshop.org/a/403/9781846976438">our shop on Bookshop.org</a>.Podcast produced and edited by <a href="https://www.meganbaydorman.com/">Megan Bay Dorman</a>Programmed by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/indiepublishermatt/">Matt Casbourne</a> Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

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