“Born to a Scottish mother and Punjabi father, Arun Sood grew up hearing tales of his grandmother’s life on Vallay, a tiny Hebridean island accessed only at low tide from the coast of North Uist. Grandma was Katie MacNaughton, a housekeeper for George Beveridge, who tragically drowned wading home in 1944 (his father was Erskine Beveridge, the renowned Scottish archaeologist). The island was abandon”
