Alone Together

Edinburgh professor Cris Beecham is perfectly content as a cantankerous loner. Then a rival discredits her work on dissociative disorders and she is compelled to defend it. It’s all she has.

Eleven-year-old Fin exists to protect Lee from their indifferent father, playground bullies and hunger. But Fin isn’t a normal brother. And Lee isn't a normal boy.

To Cris, it is the perfect case for her work. But when she is mistaken for a family friend, they relocate for the summer to her croft in Scotland’s remote Orkney Islands. As Fin and Lee’s plight opens Cris’s withered heart, she begins to see beyond the case study.

But is a lonely old woman what the boys really need?