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The story of two strangers destined to understand each other, a little gem of British literature. Ivar, the only inhabitant of a remote Scottish island, has lived for decades in peaceful isolation accompanied by a few animals. Until one day in 1843, he finds an unconscious man on the beach. The newcomer is John Ferguson, a young priest sent by the owner of the island to evict Ivar so that he can turn the area into grazing land. Unaware of the stranger's intentions, Ivar takes him to his house and, despite the fact that they do not speak the same language, a fragile bond begins to grow between them. Meanwhile, on dry land, Mary, John's wife, anxiously awaits news of her husband. Set in the remote territory of the Orkney Islands during the relentless and dramatic Evictions of rural Scotland in the 19th century, Cleared is a moving story of the encounter between the different, an intimate and tender novel about two people at the mercy of the social and economic changes of their time.