About the author

Mandy Haggith is the author of several works of poetry, fiction and non-fiction. Her first novel, The Last Bear, was set 1,000 years ago and won the Robin Jenkins Literary Award. An environmental activist and former scientist and academic, she is co-ordinator of the European Environmental Paper Network and has lobbied at the United Nations. She lives in the northwest Scottish Highlands. The Walrus Mutterer is published by Sandstone on 21 March, price £8.99.