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The story is told alternately through clippings from [=McWatt's=] newspaper articles, his poetry, Mhairi's diary and extracts from her completed biography.

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The story is told alternately through clippings from [=McWatt's=] newspaper articles, his poetry, {{poetry}}, Mhairi's diary and extracts from her completed biography.

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* Defictionalization - Establish Scottish folk artist did actually record a version of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVUY0H_tpzQ ''Hame Tae Fascaray'']], featuring the author on Tin Whistle.
* Foreshadowing - [[spoiler: A falling-out between [=McWatt=] and [=MacDiarmid=] hinges on the fact that the latter abandons Scots in his later works, and [=McWatt=] makes much of the fact his erstwhile friend's birth name was the more English Christopher Grieve. We later find out that the two poets are alike in more ways than just their poetic stylings.]]

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* Defictionalization - Establish Scottish folk artist did actually record a version of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVUY0H_tpzQ ''Hame Tae Fascaray'']], featuring the author on Tin Whistle.
* Foreshadowing
{{Foreshadowing}} - [[spoiler: A falling-out between [=McWatt=] and [=MacDiarmid=] hinges on the fact that the latter abandons Scots in his later works, and [=McWatt=] makes much of the fact his erstwhile friend's birth name was the more English Christopher Grieve. We later find out that the two poets are alike in more ways than just their poetic stylings.]]



* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed - Archie Tupper, the American Billionaire who wants to build a golf course on Fascaray, uses a lot of Compulsory Purchase orders and interferes with a local's water supply is absolutely not UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump.



* Tuckerization - Many famous musicians are referred to during the text, most of them having covered ''Hame Tae Fascaray''. Examples include Music/BobDylan, Music/TheProclaimers, Shooglenifty, Music/DollyParton, Music/KTTunstall, and Callum Rae and The Corellas.

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* Tuckerization {{Trumplica}} - Archie Tupper, the American Billionaire who wants to build a golf course on Fascaray, uses a lot of Compulsory Purchase orders and interferes with a local's water supply is absolutely not UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump.
* {{Tuckerization}}
- Many famous musicians are referred to during the text, most of them having covered ''Hame Tae Fascaray''. Examples include Music/BobDylan, Music/TheProclaimers, Shooglenifty, Music/DollyParton, Music/KTTunstall, and Callum Rae and The Corellas.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory - Many of the most famous events in the latter half of 20th Century Scottish history are relocated to Fascaray: Vandalism of Pillar boxes using UsefulNotes/HMTheQueen 's regnal number, Gigha's use of Community Buyout Initiative, and the Seven Men of Knoydart become Fascaray's Famous Five.

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* ArtisticLicenseHistory - Many of the most famous events in the latter half of 20th Century Scottish history are relocated to Fascaray: Vandalism of Pillar boxes using UsefulNotes/HMTheQueen UsefulNotes/ElizabethII 's regnal number, Gigha's use of Community Buyout Initiative, and the Seven Men of Knoydart become Fascaray's Famous Five.
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->''Hee-ra-haw, boys,''

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->''Hee-ra-haw, ->''"Hee-ra-haw, boys,''



->''Tae Fascaray.''
-->--chorus of ''Hame Tae Fascaray'', Grigor [=McWatt=], 1946

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->''Tae Fascaray.''
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[[caption-width-right:313:[[Hame, n., Scottish 'home': a valued place regarded as a refuge or place of origin]]

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* ArtisticLicenseHistory - Many of the most famous events in the latter half of 20th Century Scottish history are relocated to Fascaray: Vandalism of Pillar boxes using QueenElizabethII 's regnal number, Gigha's use of Community Buyout Initiative, and the Seven Men of Knoydart become Fascaray's Famous Five.

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* ArtisticLicenseHistory - Many of the most famous events in the latter half of 20th Century Scottish history are relocated to Fascaray: Vandalism of Pillar boxes using QueenElizabethII UsefulNotes/HMTheQueen 's regnal number, Gigha's use of Community Buyout Initiative, and the Seven Men of Knoydart become Fascaray's Famous Five.



* Tuckerization - Many famous musicians are referred to during the text, most of them having covered ''Hame Tae Fascaray''. Examples include Music/BobDylan, Music/TheProclaimers}, Shooglenifty, DollyParton, Music/KTTunsall, and Callum Rae and The Corellas.

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* Tuckerization - Many famous musicians are referred to during the text, most of them having covered ''Hame Tae Fascaray''. Examples include Music/BobDylan, Music/TheProclaimers}, Music/TheProclaimers, Shooglenifty, DollyParton, Music/KTTunsall, Music/DollyParton, Music/KTTunstall, and Callum Rae and The Corellas.
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Published in 2017 novel, ''Hame'' is Annalena [McAfee]'s second novel.

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Published in 2017 novel, ''Hame'' is Annalena [McAfee]'s [=McAfee=]'s second novel.
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->''Hee-ra-haw, boys,''
->''We're awa, boys,''
->''Gangin hame''
->''Tae Fascaray.''
-->--chorus of ''Hame Tae Fascaray'', Grigor [=McWatt=], 1946

At a loose end after her relationship has imploded, Scottish-Canadian archivist Mhairi [=McPhail=] uproots with her nine-year-old daughter to her ancestral homeland. She is tasked with writing the biography of Grigor [=McWatt=], the secretive and cantankerous late Bard of Fascaray.

The story is told alternately through clippings from [=McWatt's=] newspaper articles, his poetry, Mhairi's diary and extracts from her completed biography.

Published in 2017 novel, ''Hame'' is Annalena [McAfee]'s second novel.

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!!This book provides examples of:

* ArtisticLicenseHistory - Many of the most famous events in the latter half of 20th Century Scottish history are relocated to Fascaray: Vandalism of Pillar boxes using QueenElizabethII 's regnal number, Gigha's use of Community Buyout Initiative, and the Seven Men of Knoydart become Fascaray's Famous Five.
* BrokenPedestal - [[spoiler: By the end of the book, [=McWatt=] has fallen massively in Mhari's estimation]].
* CompletelyUnnecessaryTranslator - As far as Mhairi is concerned, Ailish, her assistant's translation of her interviewee's Scots into Standard English fits this bill.
* CompositeCharacter - [=McWatt=] is very much a composite of many famous 20th Century Scottish literary figures
** His Anglophobia and use of Scots language in his poetry is reminiscient of Hugh [=MacDiarmid=].
** [=McWatt's=] eccentric dress is similar to Sorley Maclean (Somhairle [=MacIlleathain=]).
** His toxic relationship with Lilias Hogg seems based on George Mackay Brown and Stella Cartwright.
** Gavin Maxwell also famously owned a number of otters.
* Defictionalization - Establish Scottish folk artist did actually record a version of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVUY0H_tpzQ ''Hame Tae Fascaray'']], featuring the author on Tin Whistle.
* Foreshadowing - [[spoiler: A falling-out between [=McWatt=] and [=MacDiarmid=] hinges on the fact that the latter abandons Scots in his later works, and [=McWatt=] makes much of the fact his erstwhile friend's birth name was the more English Christopher Grieve. We later find out that the two poets are alike in more ways than just their poetic stylings.]]
* GivenNameReveal - [[spoiler: The revelation that Grigor [=McWatt=] was born Geoffrey Watkins is a major revelation.]]
* HistoricalDomainCharacter - [=McWatt=] was an occasional drinking buddy of many of the Scottish literati mentioned above.
* ManInAKilt - [=McWatt's=] carefully constructed image features a kilt, and it is mentioned at one point he is actually the only Fascaradian to own any highland dress.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed - Archie Tupper, the American Billionaire who wants to build a golf course on Fascaray, uses a lot of Compulsory Purchase orders and interferes with a local's water supply is absolutely not UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump.
* PlayfulOtter - Subverted, as [=McWatt's=] pet otters are vicious beasts, one of whom is responsible for the loss of at least one two.
* UsefulNotes/ScottishEnglish - [=McWatt=] is a strong proponent of Lallands, and the text is interspersed with many examples of the famous poems he translated into the language.
* StrugglingSingleMother - Mhairi is this to Agnes, but mostly just in an emotional sense. She's so wrapped up in her work that she doesn't really devote much time to her daughter.
* Tuckerization - Many famous musicians are referred to during the text, most of them having covered ''Hame Tae Fascaray''. Examples include Music/BobDylan, Music/TheProclaimers}, Shooglenifty, DollyParton, Music/KTTunsall, and Callum Rae and The Corellas.
* UntrustingCommunity - It takes [=McWatt=] the better part of 60 years to finally be considered a true Fascaradian, although Mhairi and Agnes are adopted more quickly.

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