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Marriage Lines, by Julian Barnes

Julian Barnes at the Wikipedia: click here

🚩A review of Marriage Lines (with audio!): click here

Topics to debate

Island sex
Razor clams
Marriage Lines
Islanders' wedding night
Buttons on jerseys
Holiday activities in the island: his and hers
Marriage = picking razor clams?
Political leaders
Growing potatoes in the island
What was his pressumption?

Look up these words:

cockle, slewed, windcheater, yanked, holdall, vase, waxing, oven glove, slaughter crofter, windsock

Some more vocabulary: 

Twin Otter
 

Traigh Eais

 
Orosay (=Barra,
the most southern island)


 
Traigh Mòhr


 








wing strut


 
 
passing bay


 
machair


 
Beinn Mhartainn


 
lark


 
twite

 
 
wheatear














wagtail









ringed plover






cormorant











gannet














shag














fulmar










sea pink












yellow rattle














purple vetch











flag iris














self-heal














Greian Head










airstrip