Andrew Greig

Andrew Greig is a Scottish poet and novelist who joins intimate lives to landscape, memory, and historical pressure. That Summer follows Len Westbourne, a fighter pilot, and Stella Gardam, a radar operator, during the Battle of Britain. Faber released the work during 2000, presenting alternating viewpoints that keep aerial conflict beside the daily emotional work of people waiting, watching, and forming attachments in uncertain conditions. Greig developed the project after collaborating with poet Kathleen Jamie on A Flame in Your Heart, a poetry sequence concerned with the same wartime period. That origin helps explain the novel's compressed imagery and attention to weather, machinery, and brief encounters. A later American edition appeared as The Clouds Above: A Novel of Love and War, creating a distinct title history for the same work. Greig's broader career includes poetry, mountaineering memoir, and novels set in Scotland and beyond. In That Summer, those interests meet in a story where physical risk, place, and recollection continually shape the central relationship.