ABOUT
THE BOOK

The reverend Hector Gillean is a ghost. At the start of the last century he built a ship and sailed west from the Hebrides to Canada. Two hundred years later his great-grandson retraces the hopeful voyage from Scotland to Nova Scotia, across Canada by water and through three generations of extraordinary family history. The Oatmeal Ark is at once a record of a remarkable pilgrimage, a fantastical narrative and a glimpse at the universal quest for a better world. The Oatmeal Ark is award winning author Rory MacLean’s second novel.