Book 18 - Dearest Dacha

Dearest Dacha by Norman Maclean - first published as Dacha Mo Ghaoil in 2005

This book is only 2/3rds the size of a usual paperback and is only 102 pages long.  As a favour to their friend Duncan, 2 dodgy dealers Davy and Calum agree to travel from the Outer Hebrides to Glasgow to marry Tanya and Tamara, 2 Russian weightlifters so that they can get UK passports.  Tanya and Tamara come to North Uist to work in a sex club that Duncan has set up on a croft that he has gained possession of illegally from an elderly women, who has dementia and lives in a care home.  Meanwhile a local lawyer called Margaret MacCorquodale is determined to cleanse the island of immoral goings on before the Queen comes on a visit and to get the croft returned to its rightful owner.  A very bizarre tale.  5/10

Islands covered - North Uist, Benbecula and South Uist

North Uist

 Loch Sgioport, South Uist

South Uist - Howmore Hostel