Heavenly Pursuits

James Hutchison, a doctor on the west coast of Scotland, takes into his house a consumptive young man called Dmhnall MacDiarmid on the eve of the Second World War because MacDiarmid, a fisherman, appears to have remarkable psychic gifts. With a psychoanalyst friend from St Andrews, Hutchison decides to hold sances with his protg. The doctor's niece Alison, who will succeed him in his practice, spends most of each summer with her uncle. But that summer she falls in love with Dmhnall, and is drawn into the remarkable and sometimes terrifying paranormal phenomena surrounding him, with the local minister publicly accusing Dr Hutchison of helping to raise the dead. Heavenly Pursuits is not fantasy, but a new genre of fiction, with Lorn Macintyre drawing on his own experiences through sitting with mediums, and on his knowledge of psychic literature, to create a gripping and ultimately tragic story.