Pagan’s Pilgrimage
£9.99
With nascent love abandoned and the recurring presence of the creeping ‘wrinkled-nosed’ laundry man of a traumatic childhood, a stagnating young life must be revived by the discovery of a somewhat questionable raison d’être.
The frustrated nature of Herdman’s titular protagonist and a selection of odd experiences perfectly sets up a strife deep within himself: can and how can Pagan commit to his partially book-found life-calling, tangled into his ‘pilgrimage’?
Herdman’s writerly magic is an underappreciated facet of Scotland’s continually great literary output.