| The dyslexic young protagonist, Solomon, is driven by a teacher's cruelty to seek solitary refuge in the kirkyard, but a forgotten evil awaits him there, battening on his furious emotions. |
| My father said to me after the harvest, 'Now your mother's a ruckle of bones in the kirkyard, there's nobody to knit sea stockings for us. |
| For anyone with even a passing interest in the history of this area, the church and its kirkyard is a fascinating place. |
| He lies now in the old Glen Sannox kirkyard below a mountain boulder, smaller than the one he was first found under, inscribed to his loving memory. |
| It was a colourful occasion in a tiny kirkyard at the top of an Angus glen. |
| In five minutes the great open space was as empty of living men as Greyfriars kirkyard on a weekday. |
