The Windhover by Lorna Elcock review: 'wonderfully descriptive'

Structurally and stylistically, Lorna Elcock’s The Windhover has a maturity you don’t expect from a debut novel. It opens in September 1957, with a three-page idyll: the three Cameron children – Ewan (6), Alison (8) and Moira (10) – and their father are swimming in a Scottish loch at sunset, their mother and granny watching them from the shore.