Location from Work in Progress by Kat Mackenzie
The heart of the tour — a country of moody landscapes, literary history, and the kind of weather that makes everything feel like the opening chapter of something important.
Scotland is where most of the tour takes place and where the emotional center of the story lives. The landscape does half the narrative work — it's impossible to drive through the Highlands without feeling something shift inside you, and the book uses that mercilessly. Every misty glen, every castle ruin, every sunset over a loch is doing double duty as scenery and metaphor. For Robbie it's home, and watching him in his element — knowing every road, every local, every story behind every stone — is part of what makes Alice fall for him. Scotland doesn't just set the mood; it is the mood.
Rolling green hills giving way to dramatic Highland peaks, lochs reflecting grey skies like mirrors, stone walls threading across moorland. Castles on every other hilltop, sheep on every other hillside. The light is extraordinary — low and golden when the clouds break, theatrical and brooding when they don't.
Also known as: Scotland, The Highlands, Scottish Highlands