I thought this was a travel book and probably would have enjoyed it as such, but I read online that it's billed as a novel. The author spent time on Skye and wrote this book after she left. The island of Brauch is fictional. Also, in real life, she went with her husband but in the book calls herself a spinster. All this to say, it wasn't interesting enough to be a novel or true enough to be a travel book. I didn't know what was real and what was parody. I suppose it could be read as mildly humorous short-stories.