The Lost Salt Gift of Blood - Critical Acclaim

Critical Acclaim

The book was met with critical acclaim, particularly in the UK. Among the reviewed received were the following:

'Macleod writes with the sort of intensity that gives his beautifully shaped sentences the haunting power of the Gaelic songs which are within him' - The Times (London)

'MacLeod's melancholy and startlingly beautiful stories are like live wires, their currents of memory and grief shocking through their unprotected simplicity... each one like a novel boiled down to its essence.' - The Observer

'MacLeod belongs to that very special breed of writer who uses a specific place and its people to convey a universal experience. This is a fine collection.' The Herald (Glasgow)