In a world where climate scientists urge us to simplify our lives and the plight of refugees grows ever more pressing The Seaborne offers a story about a white educated middleclass refugee who is obliged to reduce his carbon footprint to zero. It may be for this reason that the poet and academic Damian Walford Davies has described the novel as a parable for our particularly torn times.John Finlay is fleeing from failure. His engineering business has failed his relationship has failed. His flight from debts leads him to disaster and to the Island where he must learn to live anew.Dermot pulling a body barely alive from the water has never seen anyone so strangely dressed. His Celtic island knows nothing of debt nor engineering. Where has this man come fromJohn struggles to accept that he has been carried across time and into another world both like and unlike his own. How he got there is a mystery. But John the foreigner must turn slowly into Dhion the Islander. Still he brings with him unfinished business that must be faced and ideas that may not always be welcomed. Meanwhile Dermot consumed with a growing jealousy develops his own deadly agenda. The whole community finds itself caught up in what becomes a matter of survival or transformation.A tale of discovery and reassessment in which JohnDhion must struggle to find himself his role his love and his place in this new old world.ampnbspampnbspA novel of Celtic quantum time that asks us to consider the ways in which we are all born strangers seaborne foundlings living between worlds. A parable for our particularly torn times.Damian Walford DaviesampnbspQuite captivating. I love the elemental quality and the constant presence of the wild and rugged landscape. The characters are strong and believable. A deep and thoughtprovoking book.Josie SmithampnbspA beautiful story imbued with Celtic themes and a deep spirituality. The story unfurls like a flower coming into bloom.Don MacGregor Midwest Book ReviewampnbspThis was