Otters and Autumn

A Saturday missive

A few weeks ago, I stumbled upon Ring of Bright Water by Gavin Maxwell in a charity shop for a few pounds, and I picked it up. I had swimming in the back of my mind somewhere an old film by the same name. I read the first few pages and was drawn in by its crisp and glittering descriptions of a spare and chilly life on the remote western coast of Scotlan…