Effie Deans

An Indyref Romance: Harmony and Dissonance Effie Deans

Publisher Marketing: In Aberdeen a few months before the Scottish independence referendum, Jenny just wants to get on with her studies. But she finds herself falling unexpectedly in love with Paul. This for the first time makes the debate real for her as she discovers that they have very different views about Scotland's future and much else besides. They must discover a new way to dance together, learning a form of music which may yet allow them to find harmony in apparent dissonance. As they grow closer, the distance between their political views increases. No longer able to avoid the debate Jenny secretly agrees to help her friend and tutor, Effie Deans, campaign for Britain. Can her love for Paul survive their disagreement and can they forgive each other for being different? Here is an inside account of what it was like during the campaign, but politics in the end becomes incidental to the story of a couple who must learn to share a new way of listening not only to the music they discover together, but above all, to each other. Jenny's journey will take her to Russia and, finally, back to the Aberdeenshire home of Effie Deans on the night of the referendum. Can Paul and Jenny find unity even in victory and defeat? Theirs is Scotland's story. Contributor Bio:  Deans, Effie After studying in Edinburgh, Cambridge, Copenhagen and Nizhny Novgorod, Effie Deans returned home to rural Aberdeenshire with a Russian husband. She is a well-known blogger about Scottish politics, works at the University of Aberdeen and is interested in Dostoevsky, Walter Scott and very old films.