Island on the Edge, A life on Soay, by Anne Cholawo. (Part 1)

These scenes were filmed on Soay and in the waters around the island. Music by Opaque Nature. Island on the Edge, A life on Soay is a book written by Anne Cholawo. This is the story of Anne Cholawo in her own words, a typical 80's career girl working in a busy London advertising agency, when in 1989, on holiday in Skye, she noticed an advert in an estate agent's window for a property on the nearby island of Soay. Within ten minutes of landing there she had fallen under it's spell and after a few months she moved to Soay to live. When she arrived on the remote west coast island there were 17 inhabitants. Today there are only three. This book describes Anne's extraordinary transition from a hectic urban lifestyle to one of rural isolation and self-sufficiency, without mains electricity, medical services, shops or any other modern amenities. As well as telling her own story, she introduces some of the colourful characters she has encountered there and describes the history and extraordinary beauty of Soay. Wigtown Book Festival.