About Blair

Blair's atmospheric fiction is shaped by coastlines, folklore, family silence and the things official records fail to hold. Blair  writes from the lived experience of working on all five islands, producing and presenting a show on Radio Scilly, rowing in gigs, and helping behind the scenes at The Gig World Championships.

Blair's debut novel, An Improbability of Puffins, is set on the Isles of Scilly and follows a suspended radio producer who inherits a decommissioned lighthouse from a dead musician she never met. It is a story of wrong lights, missing women, island records, sisterhood, radio witness and puffins returning to a headland that had forgotten them.

The novel draws on Blair's close knowledge of Scilly's weather, crossings, boats, community rhythms and small-place intensity, while remaining wholly fictional in its characters and institutions. 

The names are rooted in Scilly realism, although if any of the characters bear resemblance to persons alive or dead this is entirely coincidental and not intentional. An Improbability of Puffins is a work of fiction.

Blair is drawn to stories about women who return, places that remember, and records that fail to tell the whole truth. Threads Blair returns to:

Some of my pictures from across the islands ...