The Black Eden Av Richard T. Ii Kelly

<p><b>''Action-packed and panoramic.'' </b><i>Observer</i><br><b>''Magnificent . . . there won''t be a finer piece of Scottish fiction published this year.'' </b><i>Big Issue </i><br><b>''A galloping and impressively wide-ranging read.'' </b><i>Herald (Scotland) </i><br><b>''Gripping.'' </b><i>Times Literary Supplement </i><br><br>1956, the Scottish Highlands: Aaron and Robbie, a schoolmaster¿s son and a farmer¿s boy, are fast friends with a shared passion for diving, but very divergent ideas of what they will do with their lives.<br><br>Meanwhile, Mark and Ally, bright pupils at Edinburgh¿s grandest private school, are aspiring to make change in the world ¿ one through high finance, the other on the political stage.<br><br>And Joseph, heir to an Aberdeen trawler-fishing dynasty, is brooding over whether his true ambitions are set higher than his father¿s succession plan.<br><br>For each of them, the discovery of oil under the North Sea will make their dreams achievable. But behind the