Annie Worsley left a demanding academic career to take on a small-holding on the wild west coast of Scotland. This is a landscape shaped by elemental forces, fierce winds, shifting light and relentless water, which determine how the land forms, where the sea settles and what can thrive. Windswept explores what it truly means to live in this raw, awe-inspiring environment where nature rules and human life must bend to its rhythms.

Walk beside Annie as she places quartz stones in a river to catch the moonlight and guide salmon home, watches otters chase each other across the beach, and wakes to the primal roar of stags echoing through the glen. She also leads us back through deep time: to glacial valleys carved by ice, mountains sculpted by ancient rivers, and the earliest Highland communities who first forged a life in this demanding terrain, long before she found her own home there centuries later.

With vivid imagery and lyrical, deeply rooted prose, Windswept captures a place where wild weather shapes every moment and the natural world is both powerful and profoundly beautiful. It is Annie Worsley’s love letter to a landscape bursting with colour, sound and life, one of the most elemental and breathtaking corners of the UK.