The passion is there since the first moment, but due to Cam’s reticence, they didn’t consume the physical side of their relationship if not later on. The love between Nichol and Cam is natural and passionate but it blossoms slowly and steadily. And then the luck of the farm comes back, in the form of Clover, a small black kitten, and in that of Cam, a drifter young man they found in the barn. Now he is the only help his more than 70 years old grandfather has to manage their sheep farm and sincerely things are not going well, they are almost at bankruptcy point. Nichol left the island to go to college in Edinburgh and he loved the experience a gay boy with a closeted boyfriend, the freedom of Edinburgh was wonderful, but a tragedy forced him to come back home. The setting is wonderful, the Isle of Arran in Scotland I hadn’t the chance to visit this particular island, since it’s connected to mainland through a ferry service, but I did visit the Isle of Skye, and I think the feeling is probably similar, a place where you can still lose yourself in the moors, where everyone knows everyone else, in good and bad. Elisa_rolle Scrap Metal is a very particular book, quite long in length if you consider recent standards, more than 300 pages, that doesn’t mean that is filled with action, on the contrary, the major feeling of the plot is of peace and learning to joy the basic element of life.
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