Here was an English writer, desperately sick, grappling alone with the demons of his imagination in a bleak Scottish outpost in the desolate aftermath of the second world war.

二战硝烟未了，这位英语作家，孤身一人，前往苏格兰荒凉边区，不顾身体虚弱，在病魔的爪下绞尽创造力。