Doubting Thomas
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1908251875
ISBN-13
9781908251879
Publisher
Vagabond Voices
Imprint
Vagabond Voices
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 26th, 2017
Print length
300 Pages
Weight
350 grams
Dimensions
14.30 x 21.00 x 2.70 cms
Ksh 2,400.00
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This disturbing story of sex, drugs and blasphemy in late seventeenth-century Edinburgh - and of life and ideas in a repressive state that belongs to our past, speaks to our times about how the human spirit remains curious even when curiosity is dangerous and imposes silence even between those who are close.
This is a story of sex, drugs and blasphemy in late seventeenth-century Edinburgh experienced through four viewpoints over fifteen years: Dr Robert Carruth, his wife Isobel, and university students Mungo Craig and Thomas Aikenhead. After participating in the particularly gruesome autopsy of a pregnant prisoner, Robert is unable to consummate his marriage to Isobel. He buries himself in work, and his overzealousness contributes to the demise of a down-at-heel apothecary named James Aikenhead. Fifteen years pass and the apothecary's son, Thomas, appears at the Carruths' door seeking recompense for his father's death. At his side is Mungo Craig, a cunning poet with dubious loyalties. The two insinuate their way into Robert and Isobel's life, freshly exposing old fault lines in the Carruths' marriage and subjecting them to dangerous new pressure.
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