Book Annotation — The Story of Holy Island

Tristram, Kate The Story of Holy Island

 (Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2009) 274 [ISBN 978-1-85311-945-3]

I like this book because it is a modern history of Holy Island written by someone who wants to not only cover the saints whose lives gave the place its “holy” moniker — but who also wants the reader to be in touch with the messy, complicated, beautiful, and quintessentially human character of the place and its inhabitants now.