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An earthly nourris sits and sings
And aye she sings, "Ba lilly wean,
Little ken I my bairn's father,
Far less the land that he staps in. 
(Child Ballad, no. 113)
 
The Blue Salt Road is inspired by Celtic myth and is a story of humans and selkies. Selkies are seals but, like the folk stories of mermaids, can transform into human form.In this story of island folk, for many years the humans and the selkie have kept a respectful distance between themselves.
 
Flora McCraiceann, a young maiden of the islands, is determined to better herself and escape her predictable life planned out for her. To do this, she inveigles a selkie to be her boyfriend. Once pregnant, she captures the selkie’s skin he discards on transforming to a human and locks it away in a cedar chest. The legend says that once separated from its skin, the selkie cannot return to seal-form and loses memories of its previous life, instead left as a confused and subdued human.

So begins a stunning tale of love, loss and revenge, against a powerful backdrop of adventure on the high seas, and drama on the land. The Blue Salt Road balances passion and loss, love and violence and draws on nature and folklore to weave a stunning modern mythology around a nameless, wild young man.

Passion drew him to a new world, and trickery has kept him there - without his memories, separated from his own people. But as he finds his way in this dangerous new way of life, so he learns that his notions of home, and your people, might not be as fixed as he believed.