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For the islands I sing

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George Mackay Brown wrote this memoir in the years before his death in 1966, but he did not want it published while he lived. In particular, he looks at Orkney, where he was born the youngest child in a poor …

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George Mackay Brown wrote this memoir in the years before his death in 1966, but he did not want it published while he lived. In particular, he looks at Orkney, where he was born the youngest child in a poor family, and which he rarely left.

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"George Mackay Brown wrote this memoir in the years before his death in 1966, but he did not want it published while he lived. In particular, he looks at Orkney, …"

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