"Just finished The Life and Death of St Kilda - Tom Steel - the story of a remote island off the Outer Hebrides, its people and the loss of their way of life as travel to the island became easier."

Read it too, jacqui - and, just by way of a bit of one-upmanship - been there, seen it, fell in love with Hirta and especially Boreray and The Stacs. Village Bay is a powerful, spiritual place - once visited, never forgotten.

A wonderful, magical group of islands inhabited by Soay sheep, thousands of seabirds, and the almost-tangible souls of long-gone St. Kildans.