The Scillies are adored by over 200,000 international visitors annually, but only 1,000 people inhabit these islands all year round. In this book, women from all ages and backgrounds tell their stories of what island life is really like.

In this immersive celebration of the women of Scilly - told through interviewees from each inhabited island – you will discover what it takes to make a community on this tiny Atlantic archipelago. Deluged by visitors in the summer and often cut off for swaths of the winter, the inhabitants of Scilly must weather housing shortages, food scarcity, loss, love, childbirth and divorce, all on same few miles of rock in the ocean.

From the mouths of women and girls born on Scilly and those that married locals or 'blew in', from publicans and farmers to ecologists and archaeologists, this collection reveals the grit, wit and wisdom of the remarkable Scilly Women.