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<p>Shortlisted for the Young Lions Fiction Award 2015</p> <p>Set on a remote Scottish island, this is the compelling story of one family's struggle to cope with a vanishing way of life</p> <p>On Eilean Fìor, a small island off the north-west coast of Scotland with twenty-eight inhabitants, the McClouds run a faltering guesthouse. A family business, it is expected that one of the three children will eventually take over. But Barry, Flora and Trevor all have their own ideas.</p> <p>In this nuanced and moving debut novel, Andrew Ladd weaves together a series of conjoined narratives which follow each of the McClouds as they struggle to find a balance between their feelings of obligation and their desire for personal freedom. At once a lyrically haunting and unforgettable elegy for a lost world, What Ends is also a subtle family saga about change and regret - about the difference between feeling one is trapped and the reality of being so.</p>