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 World Pilot Gig Championships.
Blair is drawn to stories about women who return, places that remember, and records that fail to tell the whole truth.
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.
In August 2026, An Improbability of Puffins was named one of three finalists in Darley Anderson & Associates' Characters Most Wanted competition.
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.
Some of Blair's pictures from across the islands ...
