Douglas Stewart

But but yes, Harris is a very hilly, very there's one very dominating mountain.

And it's very different to Lewis, which is conjoined to which feels like a roller rolling meadows with the with the beautiful my hair and, you know, the soft sandy beaches.

But I like the what I think of as the hardness of Harris.

You know, I think I wanted to know more about my own country.

I was a young man that I'm the son of a single mother and my mother didn't have any money.

And so she could never take us out of Glasgow.

I never saw much of Scotland when I was growing up.

And it was strange that I found myself living in New York and still didn't know much of my homeland.

And before Shuggie was about to publish, I had all the anxiety of a debut novel.

It's what's going to happen, what's going to come.

And I knew that I had to start some new work.

I'd been drawn to the islands because I am a textile student.

I went to college to study textiles.

And I had always loved Harris Tweed, which is made on Harrison Lewis.

And I was very anxious, you know, and I was wondering what would happen with Shuggie.

And so I turned to my husband one day and I said, I think I want to go to the Outer Hebrides.

And he is an American.

He has no idea where the Outer Hebrides were.

And he says, you should absolutely go to the Outer Hebrides.

Get away from me with your anxiety.